World Championship Hot Wings Contest & Festival (COMPETITORS SERIES) 2025
Apr 25–26, 2025 · Memphis, TN · 📍 Riverside Dr/River Park
Reps: Carolyn Wells, Wayne Lohman · Prize money: $5,000
The World Championship Hot Wings Contest & Festival (COMPETITORS SERIES) 2025 is a Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) sanctioned barbecue contest held on April 25, 2025 in Memphis, TN at Riverside Dr/River Park. This is the 2nd of 3 editions of this contest on record; the 2024 edition came before it; the next was held in 2026.
The contest at a glance (read off the scored boards)
Entries
Top score
Winning margin
Field average
Perfect 180s
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
Field spread
Prize money
Score curves (score by finishing position — steep cliffs mean a spread field, flat lines a knife fight)
Category showdown (top / average / median score per category)
Score distribution
This contest over the years full contest page →
No edition of this contest has results on file yet, so there is nothing to compare across the years: these are the dates it has run.
| Date | Where | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 2024 | Memphis, TN | Riverside Dr/River Park |
| Apr 25, 2025 ← this one | Memphis, TN | Riverside Dr/River Park |
| Apr 18, 2026 | Memphis, TN | 213 N McLean Blvd |
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Comp — Wing Final | 179.4400 | 175.4056 | 174.2628 |
| Other — Wing Preliminary | 174.8916 | 171.9888 | 169.1544 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Ancillary categories
This contest judged side dishes only — no meats and no overall — so these boards are the contest, and the figures and charts above are read off them.
Open Comp — Wing Final
30 entries · top 179.4400 · median 169.9714
Other — Wing Preliminary
34 entries · top 174.8916 · median 166.2972