Smoke & Fire (BACKYARD ONLY)
2025-04-25 – 2025-04-26 · Stanley, WI · 📍 Soo Line Park
Reps: LAURIE TWETEN · Prize money: $2,000.00
Grand Champion: Briskey Business BBQ (348.5372) · 24 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 WEEZ'S GROOVIN' BBQ
Entries
Top score
Winning margin
Field average
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
Field spread
Prize money
Double threats
How hot was the win?
Traveled in
Came back for more
Form held
Field strength
Storylines
👑 A dynasty in the making
Dawgs BBQ has won this contest 2 times across its 3 tracked editions.
🪒 A razor-thin finish
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.5600 points — closer than 88% of every championship in the data.
🧳 Out-of-towners took the title
Briskey Business BBQ took the Grand Championship home to MN.
📸 Photo finishes
Chicken places 9–10: Sassy Smoke BBQ and Porket About It tied on 168.5256 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 9–10: Behemoth BBQ and WEEZ'S GROOVIN' BBQ tied on 167.9772 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 8–9: SMOKEY GQ edged Sassy Smoke BBQ by 0.0116.
🛡️ Back to defend
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: Dawgs BBQ (won 2024).
🃏 An upset on the books
Briskey Business BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, WEEZ'S GROOVIN' BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 14-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Score curves (score by finishing position — steep cliffs mean a spread field, flat lines a knife fight)
Category showdown (top / average / median score per meat)
Score distribution
Biggest rating movers (power-rating points won and lost at this contest)
Did form hold? (pre-contest rating vs overall finish — ratings called it if the dots climb to the right)
Where the field came from (home regions on file)
This contest over the years full contest page →
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-05 | Stanley, WI | Chapman Park | 16 | 350.8572 | Dawgs BBQ | — |
| 2025-04-25 ← this one | Stanley, WI | Soo Line Park | 24 | 348.5372 | Briskey Business BBQ | — |
| 2026-04-24 | Stanley, WI | Chapman Park | 24 | 352.0000 | Dawgs BBQ | — |
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 172.0000 | 168.5256 |
| Pork Ribs | 178.3200 | 171.9772 | 167.9772 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Backyard Series
Overall
24 entries · top 348.5372 · median 329.9600
Chicken
24 entries · top 180.0000 · median 165.6970 · 🔥 perfect 180
Pork Ribs
24 entries · top 178.3200 · median 166.8400