2013-08-23 – 2013-08-24 · Nevada, IA · 📍 Nevada, IA
Grand Champion: GOTHIC TOWN GRILLERS (686.3772) · 17 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 OLY SMOKES
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 86% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.6628 points — closer than 86% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 70 times in 100
GOTHIC TOWN GRILLERS came in rated below the field's top team, WOODWARD BARBEQUE, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 30-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
This was GOTHIC TOWN GRILLERS's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 7th tracked contest.
OLY SMOKES finished 2nd overall in the first contest the data has them cooking at all.
Brisket places 3–4: MEADOW VALLEY BBQ CO. and SMOKEY D'S WANNABEES tied on 170.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 7–8: SMOKEHOUSE 72 edged Four Mile Smokin' Crew by 0.0112. Chicken places 6–7: SMOKEHOUSE 72 edged SMOKEY D'S WANNABEES by 0.0116.
GOTHIC TOWN GRILLERS won Pork, Brisket — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
GOTHIC TOWN GRILLERS took the title on 3 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was chicken at 12th.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 177.7372 | 171.4400 | 169.7028 |
| Pork Ribs | 174.8572 | 169.1544 | 160.5484 |
| Pork | 178.3200 | 169.7028 | 160.5828 |
| Brisket | 173.1772 | 169.7028 | 160.0228 |
17 entries · top 686.3772 · median 665.6800
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | GOTHIC TOWN GRILLERS | |
| 2 | OLY SMOKES | |
| 3 | WOODWARD BARBEQUE | |
| 4 | MEADOW VALLEY BBQ CO. | |
| 5 | T. A. QUE | |
| 6 | IOWA WILD HOGS BBQ | |
| 7 | Hooligans | |
| 8 | SMOKEY D'S WANNABEES | |
| 9 | SMOKEHOUSE 72 | |
| 10 | OVERSIZE LOAD BBQ | |
| 11 | Four Mile Smokin' Crew | |
| 12 | KING KOAL BBQ | |
| 13 | DIG-IN COOKERS | |
| 14 | Two Smoking Guys | |
| 15 | Smokin' Bonz | |
| 16 | LEEPS BBQ | |
| 17 | Bottoms Up Iowa |
17 entries · top 177.7372 · median 170.2628
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | OLY SMOKES | |
| 2 | MEADOW VALLEY BBQ CO. | |
| 3 | T. A. QUE | |
| 4 | Hooligans | |
| 5 | KING KOAL BBQ | |
| 6 | SMOKEHOUSE 72 | |
| 7 | SMOKEY D'S WANNABEES | |
| 8 | WOODWARD BARBEQUE | |
| 9 | OVERSIZE LOAD BBQ | |
| 10 | Four Mile Smokin' Crew | |
| 11 | Two Smoking Guys | |
| 12 | GOTHIC TOWN GRILLERS | |
| 13 | IOWA WILD HOGS BBQ | |
| 14 | LEEPS BBQ | |
| 15 | Smokin' Bonz | |
| 16 | DIG-IN COOKERS | |
| 17 | Bottoms Up Iowa |
17 entries · top 174.8572 · median 160.5600
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | WOODWARD BARBEQUE | |
| 2 | IOWA WILD HOGS BBQ | |
| 3 | OLY SMOKES | |
| 4 | Hooligans | |
| 5 | GOTHIC TOWN GRILLERS | |
| 6 | SMOKEY D'S WANNABEES | |
| 7 | SMOKEHOUSE 72 | |
| 8 | Four Mile Smokin' Crew | |
| 9 | OVERSIZE LOAD BBQ | |
| 10 | MEADOW VALLEY BBQ CO. | |
| 11 | Two Smoking Guys | |
| 12 | Smokin' Bonz | |
| 13 | LEEPS BBQ | |
| 14 | T. A. QUE | |
| 15 | DIG-IN COOKERS | |
| 16 | Bottoms Up Iowa | |
| 17 | KING KOAL BBQ |
17 entries · top 178.3200 · median 162.8344
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | GOTHIC TOWN GRILLERS | |
| 2 | WOODWARD BARBEQUE | |
| 3 | T. A. QUE | |
| 4 | MEADOW VALLEY BBQ CO. | |
| 5 | OLY SMOKES | |
| 6 | Four Mile Smokin' Crew | |
| 7 | SMOKEHOUSE 72 | |
| 8 | DIG-IN COOKERS | |
| 9 | OVERSIZE LOAD BBQ | |
| 10 | IOWA WILD HOGS BBQ | |
| 11 | Hooligans | |
| 12 | KING KOAL BBQ | |
| 13 | LEEPS BBQ | |
| 14 | SMOKEY D'S WANNABEES | |
| 15 | Two Smoking Guys | |
| 16 | Smokin' Bonz | |
| 17 | Bottoms Up Iowa |
17 entries · top 173.1772 · median 162.2628
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | GOTHIC TOWN GRILLERS | |
| 2 | OVERSIZE LOAD BBQ | |
| 3 | MEADOW VALLEY BBQ CO. | |
| 4 | SMOKEY D'S WANNABEES | |
| 5 | IOWA WILD HOGS BBQ | |
| 6 | T. A. QUE | |
| 7 | OLY SMOKES | |
| 8 | SMOKEHOUSE 72 | |
| 9 | WOODWARD BARBEQUE | |
| 10 | DIG-IN COOKERS | |
| 11 | Hooligans | |
| 12 | KING KOAL BBQ | |
| 13 | Smokin' Bonz | |
| 14 | Four Mile Smokin' Crew | |
| 15 | Two Smoking Guys | |
| 16 | LEEPS BBQ | |
| 17 | Bottoms Up Iowa |