The All American Comeback BBQ, Bourbon, & Bands
2025-05-02 – 2025-05-03 · Ruidoso Downs, NM · 📍 26225 US Highway 70
Reps: DEBBIE SPRAY, SCOTT SPRAY · Prize money: $23,000.00
Grand Champion: Cuatro D Barbeque (706.8456) · 30 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 GETTIN' BASTED
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
Form held
Field strength
Storylines
📸 Photo finishes
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.
🃏 An upset on the books
Cuatro D Barbeque came in rated below the field's top team, GETTIN' BASTED, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 7-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)
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 177.1428 | 175.4056 |
| Pork Ribs | 178.8572 | 175.4172 | 174.2628 |
| Pork | 179.4400 | 177.7144 | 174.8800 |
| Brisket | 180.0000 | 175.4172 | 171.9656 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
30 entries · top 706.8456 · median 684.5086
Chicken
30 entries · top 180.0000 · median 172.5658 · 🔥 perfect 180
Pork Ribs
30 entries · top 178.8572 · median 171.9714
Pork
30 entries · top 179.4400 · median 172.5600
Brisket
30 entries · top 180.0000 · median 169.6972 · 🔥 perfect 180
Ancillary categories
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 — Bbq Sides
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 |
Ancillary — Dessert
14 entries · top 180.0000 · 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 |
Ancillary — Tacos
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 |