2013-10-25 – 2013-10-26 · Butler, MO · 📍 Butler, MO · State championship
Grand Champion: KC SMOKE DAWGS (694.2628) · 33 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 BRICKHEAD BBQ
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 68 times in 100
KC SMOKE DAWGS came in rated below the field's top team, BURNT FINGER BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 32-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
This was KC SMOKE DAWGS's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 8th tracked contest.
Wider than 87% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The champion won by 10.2856 points — a wider margin than 87% of championships in the data.
Pork Ribs places 2–3: UNCLE BUB'S BBQ, LLC and Three Brothers Different Mothers tied on 171.9772 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 3–4: Three Brothers Different Mothers and MILLER'S BARNYARD BARBEQUE tied on 171.9772 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 6–7: 2 SONS AND THE BIG GUY and WORTH SMOKIN' BBQ tied on 169.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
KC SMOKE DAWGS won Pork Ribs, Brisket — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
KC SMOKE DAWGS took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was chicken at 8th.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 178.8572 | 172.5828 | 168.5600 |
| Pork Ribs | 175.4172 | 170.2744 | 166.8344 |
| Pork | 178.8572 | 169.7256 | 166.8228 |
| Brisket | 179.4400 | 170.8344 | 167.9772 |
33 entries · top 694.2628 · median 646.1944
33 entries · top 178.8572 · median 161.7028
33 entries · top 175.4172 · median 160.5828
33 entries · top 178.8572 · median 163.3828
33 entries · top 179.4400 · median 159.4056
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.
10 entries · top 180.0000 · median 170.0228 · 🔥 perfect 180
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BURNT FINGER BBQ | |
| 2 | BRICKHEAD BBQ | |
| 3 | Three Guys and a Smoker | |
| 4 | SMOKIN ROYS | |
| 5 | Plumb Smokin | |
| 6 | ROADKILL BBQ | |
| 7 | Phat Guys BBQ | |
| 8 | MILLER'S BARNYARD BARBEQUE | |
| 9 | GETTIN' BASTED | |
| 10 | UNCLE BO'S BBQ |