May 2–3, 2025 · Ruidoso Downs, NM · 📍 26225 US Highway 70
Reps: Debbie Spray, Scott Spray · Prize money: $23,000
Cuatro D Barbeque won Grand Champion at The All American Comeback BBQ, Bourbon, & Bands on May 2, 2025 in Ruidoso Downs, NM at 26225 US Highway 70, scoring 706.8456 in a field of 30 teams. GETTIN' BASTED took Reserve Grand Champion with 703.4060. Category winners: Chicken — BrewsCue (180.0000); Pork Ribs — Bushmaster BBQ (178.8572); Pork — LOOT N' BOOTY BBQ (179.4400); Brisket — SMOKIN' VOLTS BBQ (180.0000).
Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.
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.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 95 times in 100
Cuatro D Barbeque came in rated below the field's top team, GETTIN' BASTED, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 5-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Cuatro D Barbeque won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 3 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.
This was Cuatro D Barbeque's first Grand Championship in the data.
Cuatro D Barbeque finished 1st overall in the first contest the data has them cooking at all.
Chicken places 6–7: Nena Q BBQ and Cluster Cluck Barbecue tied on 176.5716 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 1–2: Bushmaster BBQ and Cuatro D Barbeque tied on 178.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 7–8: TEXAS SMOKE WHISPERER and Nena Q BBQ tied on 174.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
2 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
What happened at this contest that stands in the all-time KCBS record book. A gold line is a record nobody has beaten.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180 | 177.1428 | 175.4056 |
| Pork Ribs | 178.8572 | 175.4172 | 174.2628 |
| Pork | 179.4400 | 177.7144 | 174.8800 |
| Brisket | 180 | 175.4172 | 171.9656 |
30 entries · top 706.8456 · median 684.5086
30 entries · top 180 · median 172.5658 · 🔥 perfect 180
30 entries · top 178.8572 · median 171.9714
30 entries · top 179.4400 · median 172.5600
30 entries · top 180 · median 169.6972 · 🔥 perfect 180
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.
10 entries · top 174.3316 · median 169.7028
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mrs. Plucky | |
| 2 | Cluster Cluck Barbecue | |
| 3 | Nena Q BBQ | |
| 4 | Bourbon & Blues BBQ | |
| 5 | BrewsCue | |
| 6 | Cuatro D Barbeque | |
| 7 | Kanned Heat | |
| 8 | Pit Pirates BBQ | |
| 9 | POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP | |
| 10 | Chingon BBQ |
14 entries · top 180 · median 172.8400 · 🔥 perfect 180
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SoCal Outlaw BBQ | |
| 2 | LC BBQ | |
| 3 | ROLLIN' SMOKE BBQ TEXAS | |
| 4 | Q LIVE CREW | |
| 5 | Mrs. Plucky | |
| 6 | Cuatro D Barbeque | |
| 7 | Colorado Bulldawg BBQ | |
| 8 | BrewsCue | |
| 9 | Bourbon & Blues BBQ | |
| 10 | Chingon BBQ | |
| 11 | SMOKIN' VOLTS BBQ | |
| 12 | Pork Bombin BBQ | |
| 13 | POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP | |
| 14 | TEXAS SMOKE WHISPERER |
11 entries · top 173.1200 · median 168.5600
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bourbon & Blues BBQ | |
| 2 | LC BBQ | |
| 3 | Chingon BBQ | |
| 4 | Cuatro D Barbeque | |
| 5 | Q LIVE CREW | |
| 6 | SMOKIN' VOLTS BBQ | |
| 7 | Mrs. Plucky | |
| 8 | POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP | |
| 9 | TEXAS SMOKE WHISPERER | |
| 10 | HIGH DESERT HOLY SMOKE BBQ | |
| 11 | BrewsCue |