Decided by a tiebreaker
Tie
identical totals at the top
The top two teams finished on identical totals — the Grand Championship came down to the KCBS tiebreaker rules.
Wings 4 Water IV (COMPETITOR SERIES)
Sep 4, 2025 · Lee's Summit, MO · 📍 1401 NW River Rd
Reps: David Dyche, Jo Dyche
UMB Bank won Grand Champion at the Wings 4 Water IV (COMPETITOR SERIES) on September 4, 2025 in Lee's Summit, MO at 1401 NW River Rd, scoring 177.7144 in a field of 41 teams. BURNT FINGER BBQ took Reserve Grand Champion with 177.7144.
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.
152.47
median 167.38
177.71 🏆
Entries
41
0 judged meats · 1 ancillary
Top score
177.7144
Winning margin
Tie
identical totals — KCBS tiebreaker
Field average
167.53
152.47177.71
median 167.38 · last place to winner
Perfect 180s
0
Top-10 cutoff
170.8344
152.47177.71
10th place overall
Field spread
25.2460
winner to last place
Storylines (1 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.
Score curves (score by finishing position — steep cliffs mean a spread field, flat lines a knife fight)
Score distribution
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Competitor Series
Overall
41 entries · top 177.7144 · median 167.3828 · out of 180, not the usual 720
Ancillary categories
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.
Competitor Series — Chicken Wings
41 entries · top 177.7144 · median 167.3828