A rookie on the podium
3rd
at their first tracked contest
PRAIRIE SMOKE & SPICE BBQ finished 3rd overall in the first contest the data has them cooking at all.
Taste of Autumn BBQ Cook-off
2013-09-20 – 2013-09-21 · Spearfish, SD · 📍 Spearfish, SD
Grand Champion: JO-BAWB'S BBQ (694.2172) · 17 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 SPITFIRE
The contest at a glance (read off the scored boards)
How the field scored
Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.
456.46
median 648.57
694.22 🏆
How the meats cooked
Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.
- Chicken 176.56
- Pork Ribs 177.70
- Pork 177.14
- Brisket 175.42
20.00
177.70
Entries
17
4 judged meats
Top score
694.2172
Winning margin
1.7260
GC over RC
Field average
640.96
456.46694.22
median 648.57 · last place to winner
Perfect 180s
0
Tightest race
Chicken
5.1544 pts across the top 5
Top-10 cutoff
647.9316
456.46694.22
10th place overall
Field spread
237.7596
winner to last place
Double threats
6
teams with 2+ top-5 calls
How hot was the win?
Top 57%
beats 43% of 4707 Master Series wins in the data
Form held
Moderate
ρ = -0.6 between pre-contest rating and finish
Field strength
1533
avg power rating going in · stronger than 25% of contests
Storylines (4 found in this contest's numbers)
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
Photo finishes
Tie
closest of 5 calls decided inside half a point
Chicken places 2–3: LONESTAR SMOKE RANGERS and PRAIRIE SMOKE & SPICE BBQ tied on 174.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 3–4: PRAIRIE SMOKE & SPICE BBQ edged HIGH PLAINS SMOKERS by 0.0116. Chicken places 9–10: Brew-N-BBQ edged JR's Rhodehouse BBQ Pit by 0.0116.
- Chicken 2–3 · tie
- Chicken 3–4 · 0.0116
- Chicken 9–10 · 0.0116
- Pork 7–8 · 0.0344
A double category winner
2
category wins in a day
JO-BAWB'S BBQ won Pork, Brisket — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
- Pork 1st
- Brisket 1st
How the title was won
4 of 4
meats called to the stage
JO-BAWB'S BBQ took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was chicken at 8th.
- Chicken 8th
- Pork Ribs 2nd
- Pork 1st
- Brisket 1st
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)
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 176.5600 | 171.4056 | 164.5484 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.7028 | 172.5484 | 161.1544 |
| Pork | 177.1428 | 167.9772 | 164.5944 |
| Brisket | 175.4172 | 167.9656 | 159.4400 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
17 entries · top 694.2172 · median 648.5712
Chicken
17 entries · top 176.5600 · median 164.5600
Pork Ribs
17 entries · top 177.7028 · median 163.9772
Pork
17 entries · top 177.1428 · median 165.1544
Brisket
17 entries · top 175.4172 · median 161.1772