2025-08-23 – 2025-08-24 · London, ON · CANADA · 📍 136 Cromarty Drive
Reps: CRAIG MAIDENS, HEATHER MAIDENS
Grand Champion: Rub Sweat and Beers (704.5828) · 22 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 BrewsCue
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 83 times in 100
Rub Sweat and Beers came in rated below the field's top team, Shiggin aint easy, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 17-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
This was Rub Sweat and Beers's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 13th tracked contest.
3 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
Pork places 5–6: Rub Sweat and Beers and MEAN MOE'S BBQ tied on 176.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 7–8: BrewsCue edged MEAN MOE'S BBQ by 0.0116. Chicken places 5–6: Black Bobby Flay edged MEAN MOE'S BBQ by 0.0116.
Rub Sweat and Beers won Chicken, Pork Ribs — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
Rub Sweat and Beers took the title on 3 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was brisket at 11th.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 175.4172 | 173.1428 |
| Pork Ribs | 179.4400 | 175.4172 | 171.9772 |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 176.0000 | 170.8572 |
| Brisket | 180.0000 | 173.7028 | 170.2856 |
22 entries · top 704.5828 · median 683.3830
22 entries · top 180.0000 · median 172.8400 · 🔥 perfect 180
22 entries · top 179.4400 · median 171.4170
22 entries · top 180.0000 · median 170.2512 · 🔥 perfect 180
22 entries · top 180.0000 · median 169.1372 · 🔥 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.
3 entries · top 173.1660 · median 173.1200
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meat Heads | |
| 2 | Smoke Therapy BBQ | |
| 3 | Team Kiera |
2 entries · top 165.6800 · median 163.4114
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | We Do It Right BBQ | |
| 2 | Sassy Sister |