2025-08-08 – 2025-08-10 · Keswick, NB · CANADA · 📍 251 NB Route 616
Reps: CRAIG MAIDENS, HEATHER MAIDENS
Grand Champion: 73-BBQ (712.0000) · 15 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Cook the books
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 71 times in 100
73-BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, GOOD GOOGLY GOO BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 29-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
This was 73-BBQ's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 6th tracked contest.
Chicken places 4–5: GOOD GOOGLY GOO BBQ and 73-BBQ tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 1–2: 73-BBQ and Cook the books tied on 179.4400 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 5–6: RUSTY'S SMOKE BBQ edged GOOD GOOGLY GOO BBQ by 0.0116.
Rub Sweat and Beers won Chicken, Brisket — a double.
73-BBQ took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was chicken at 5th.
1 perfect 180 was scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 176.5600 | 168.5372 |
| Pork Ribs | 179.4400 | 173.1544 | 164.0116 |
| Pork | 179.4400 | 174.2972 | 169.6684 |
| Brisket | 177.7028 | 173.1544 | 166.8572 |
15 entries · top 712.0000 · median 676.5832
15 entries · top 180.0000 · median 174.2628 · 🔥 perfect 180
15 entries · top 179.4400 · median 165.7144
15 entries · top 179.4400 · median 170.2744
15 entries · top 177.7028 · median 169.6800
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.
8 entries · top 175.4172 · median 170.2514
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barbecue Heaven | |
| 2 | CycloneBBQ | |
| 3 | Cook the books | |
| 4 | RUSTY'S SMOKE BBQ | |
| 5 | Grillin' & Chillin' Pitmasters | |
| 6 | Saucy Rossy BBQ | |
| 7 | Smoking Redneck's | |
| 8 | Road Dawgz BBQ |
5 entries · top 173.1200 · median 171.4172
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CycloneBBQ | |
| 2 | Cook the books | |
| 3 | Back 40 Smoke Co | |
| 4 | Barbecue Heaven | |
| 5 | RUSTY'S SMOKE BBQ |