2025-05-02 – 2025-05-03 · Brookhaven, MS · 📍 125 South Whitworth Ave. · State championship
Reps: MARIA LOHMAN, WAYNE LOHMAN · Prize money: $6,500.00
Grand Champion: Kermit's Ex (705.1428) · 27 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 ROOTERS-N-TOOTERS TN
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.
Closer than 89% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.5940 points — closer than 89% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 72 times in 100
Kermit's Ex came in rated below the field's top team, ROOTERS-N-TOOTERS TN, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 28-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Chicken places 1–2: HOLD YOUR HORSES BBQ and Kermit's Ex tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 3–4: Glamping Grillers and DANG GOOD BBQ tied on 178.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 4–5: DANG GOOD BBQ and CHICKEN FRIED BBQ tied on 178.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
Kermit's Ex took the title on 3 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was brisket at 16th.
2 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 178.8572 | 175.4056 |
| Pork Ribs | 179.4400 | 176.5600 | 173.1200 |
| Pork | 178.8572 | 177.1428 | 174.2628 |
| Brisket | 177.7028 | 175.4172 | 171.4400 |
27 entries · top 705.1428 · median 689.0628
27 entries · top 180.0000 · median 173.7028 · 🔥 perfect 180
27 entries · top 179.4400 · median 171.9772
27 entries · top 178.8572 · median 171.9772
27 entries · top 177.7028 · median 169.7028