2013-08-23 – 2013-08-24 · Nashville, TN · 📍 Nashville, TN
Grand Champion: WARREN COUNTY PORK CHOPPERS (696.5484) · 55 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 SWIGGIN PIG
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 81% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 1.1428 points — closer than 81% of every championship in the data.
WARREN COUNTY PORK CHOPPERS won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 3 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.
3 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
Chicken places 2–3: WARREN COUNTY PORK CHOPPERS and SPENCER RIDGE BBQ CO. tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 7–8: So Good Barbecue and SMOKE'M IF U GOT'M tied on 172.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 1–2: SWIGGIN PIG and WARREN COUNTY PORK CHOPPERS tied on 178.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
SMOKE OF THE SHOALS won Pork, Brisket — a double.
Bigger than 90% of the 5,410 contests in the data
55 teams made this a bigger field than 90% of every contest tracked.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 173.1428 | 171.9772 |
| Pork Ribs | 178.8572 | 176.0000 | 173.1316 |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 175.4172 | 171.9656 |
| Brisket | 180.0000 | 172.5944 | 170.2856 |
55 entries · top 696.5484 · median 645.6340
55 entries · top 180.0000 · median 162.8572 · 🔥 perfect 180
55 entries · top 178.8572 · median 162.8228
55 entries · top 180.0000 · median 164.0112 · 🔥 perfect 180
55 entries · top 180.0000 · median 158.2400 · 🔥 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.
19 entries · top 488.4224 · median 312.0568
12 entries · top 176.5600 · median 153.4514
5 entries · top 174.8572 · median 170.8456
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | GRILLERS IN THE MIST | |
| 2 | That Just Aint Right Smkers | |
| 3 | Ole Country Porkers | |
| 4 | BEGLEY'S BRATS & DOGS | |
| 5 | Pit and Sit |
11 entries · top 172.5484 · median 155.9540
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BEGLEY'S BRATS & DOGS | |
| 2 | ALL SMOKED UP | |
| 3 | Pit and Sit | |
| 4 | That Just Aint Right Smkers | |
| 5 | MASTER BASTERS | |
| 6 | Ole Country Porkers | |
| 7 | Something Good BBQ | |
| 8 | BARBIE N THE QUE | |
| 9 | Porkusters | |
| 10 | GRILLERS IN THE MIST | |
| 11 | PORK U |
17 entries · top 165.7256 · median 158.2400
6 entries · top 177.7144 · median 167.9884
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | GRILLERS IN THE MIST | |
| 2 | Ole Country Porkers | |
| 3 | PORK U | |
| 4 | Cool Breeze BBQ | |
| 5 | BEGLEY'S BRATS & DOGS | |
| 6 | Brewhouse Ribs & Chicken |