2013-12-06 – 2013-12-07 · Demopolis, AL · 📍 Demopolis, AL · State championship
Grand Champion: RED EYED SMOKERS (687.9200) · 29 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 79% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 1.1660 points — closer than 79% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 75 times in 100
RED EYED SMOKERS came in rated below the field's top team, SWIGGIN PIG, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 25-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
RED EYED SMOKERS won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 4 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.
This was RED EYED SMOKERS's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 12th tracked contest.
Brisket places 3–4: HAULIN' BUTT BBQ and The Specialists tied on 176.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 9–10: Sho Nuff Smokin edged SHORT BUS COOKERS by 0.0116. Pork Ribs places 6–7: RED EYED SMOKERS edged BAYOU BOOGIE BBQ by 0.0116.
1 perfect 180 was scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 175.4056 | 173.1200 | 170.8228 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.1544 | 169.6800 | 166.8344 |
| Pork | 177.7028 | 170.8228 | 167.3828 |
| Brisket | 180.0000 | 174.2628 | 167.9772 |
29 entries · top 687.9200 · median 660.4684
29 entries · top 175.4056 · median 167.3712
29 entries · top 177.1544 · median 163.3828
29 entries · top 177.7028 · median 166.2400
29 entries · top 180.0000 · median 164.5600 · 🔥 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.
21 entries · top 177.1428 · median 163.9428
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LOTTA BULL BBQ | |
| 2 | SWIGGIN PIG | |
| 3 | THE BARBECUE GRILLBILLIES | |
| 4 | Hog Wild & Pig Crazy | |
| 5 | Pickled To Death-1 | |
| 6 | Alabama Power-2 | |
| 7 | JIGGY PIGGY | |
| 8 | HOUSE OF Q | |
| 9 | FIRE DANCER BBQ | |
| 10 | PE LITTLE THRIGS | |
| 11 | Bama Boys | |
| 12 | SMOKIN BUTT CREW | |
| 13 | RED EYED SMOKERS | |
| 14 | Kudzu Kookers | |
| 15 | The Specialists | |
| 16 | Full of Bologna | |
| 17 | Sho Nuff Smokin | |
| 18 | WHY YOU GRILLIN' ME ...DAWG? | |
| 19 | WILD BUNCH BUTT BURNERS | |
| 20 | SMOKE OF THE SHOALS | |
| 21 | Big Sunny BBQ |