NORALA BBQ TEAM won Grand Champion at the O'So Good BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY) Day 1 on May 2, 2025 in Oneonta, AL at 28117 State Hwy 75, scoring 355.4288 in a field of 28 teams. Deviant Smoke took Reserve Grand Champion with 349.6800. Category winners: Chicken — NORALA BBQ TEAM (178.8572); Pork Ribs — Deviant Smoke (178.8572). This is the 2nd of 3 editions of this contest on record; the 2024 edition was won by Pork Life; the next was held in 2026.
The contest at a glance (read off the scored boards)
How the field scored
Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.
174.29median 337.37355.43 🏆
How the meats cooked
Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
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Photo finishes
Tieclosest of 10 calls decided inside half a point
Backyard Series — Chicken places 5–6: Fire Pig and Electro-Que-ted tied on 173.1084 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Backyard Series — Chicken places 9–10: Deviant Smoke and Bonnie Blue BBQ tied on 170.8228 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Ancillary — Pork places 8–9: LEE LA Q and Pork Life tied on 170.8228 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
Run by the organizers alongside the sanctioned contest. These are judged on their own terms and do not count toward the overall score, so they're kept out of the meat stats above.
Ancillary — Appetizer
5 entries · top 180 · median 177.7144 · 🔥 perfect 180