2013-10-31 – 2013-11-02 · Laughlin, NV · 📍 Laughlin, NV
Grand Champion: THE PIT CREW BBQ OF AZ (690.8456) · 85 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 HOG TIDE BAR-B-QUE
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 66 times in 100
THE PIT CREW BBQ OF AZ came in rated below the field's top team, IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 34-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Chicken places 2–3: TIPPYCANOE BBQ CREW and SLAP YO' DADDY BBQ tied on 177.1428 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 8–9: THESLABS.COM and BURNIN AND LOOTIN tied on 174.2856 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 3–4: HOG TIDE BAR-B-QUE and GOT SMOKE BAR-B-QUE tied on 177.1544 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
THE PIT CREW BBQ OF AZ took the title on 2 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was brisket at 20th.
Bigger than 98% of the 5,410 contests in the data
85 teams made this a bigger field than 98% of every contest tracked.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 178.8800 | 174.9144 | 173.7372 |
| Pork Ribs | 178.8800 | 174.2856 | 172.5716 |
| Pork | 178.8572 | 175.4400 | 172.0000 |
| Brisket | 178.8800 | 176.0000 | 171.9656 |
85 entries · top 690.8456 · median 655.2688
85 entries · top 178.8800 · median 164.6172
85 entries · top 178.8800 · median 163.9772
85 entries · top 178.8572 · median 163.3828
85 entries · top 178.8800 · median 161.1312
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.
32 entries · top 177.1428 · median 160.5542
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | VOODOO ZOMBQUE | |
| 2 | WILDCATTERS Q CREW | |
| 3 | BIG B'S DOWN-N-DIRTY BBQ | |
| 4 | HERE PIGGY PIGGY BBQ | |
| 5 | GRILL OF HIS DREAMS | |
| 6 | SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ | |
| 7 | BBQ Junkie | |
| 8 | ROCKET MAN BBQ | |
| 9 | BIG PAPA'S COUNTRY KITCHEN | |
| 10 | HOG HEAVEN BARBECUE COMPANY | |
| 11 | SMOKY OKIE & COMPANY | |
| 12 | THE SMOKING HILLS | |
| 13 | THESLABS.COM | |
| 14 | LANG BBQ SMOKERS | |
| 15 | QUE'N STEW'N & BREW'N | |
| 16 | Lip S-Macn-BBQ | |
| 17 | SMOKE JUNKIES BBQ | |
| 18 | SLAP YO' DADDY BBQ | |
| 19 | HOT WACHULA'S | |
| 20 | DUELIN' J'S | |
| 21 | BOWLING OVER PIGS | |
| 22 | PORK ON THE FORK | |
| 23 | MONTANA Q | |
| 24 | Outlaw Smokers | |
| 25 | BIG PIG BBQ | |
| 26 | SWEET MAISIE-ROSE BBQ | |
| 27 | Sweet Smoke Q | |
| 28 | Montana Bar-B-Q | |
| 29 | INSANE SWINE BBQ | |
| 30 | BAD BOYZ BBQ | |
| 31 | Rogue Hog BBQ | |
| 32 | Smoken Sams |