Feb 21–23, 2014 · San Juan, PR
R2-BQ won Grand Champion at the Cattlemen's Caribbean BBQ Competition on February 21, 2014 in San Juan, PR, scoring 686.8456 in a field of 38 teams. SHIGGIN & GRINNIN took Reserve Grand Champion with 683.9772. Category winners: Chicken — Los Barbicueros Grill Team (172.5600); Pork Ribs — SHIGGIN & GRINNIN (176.0116); Pork — Sabor A Lena (177.1428); Brisket — SHIGGIN & GRINNIN (178.2972).
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
R2-BQ came in rated below the field's top team, SHIGGIN & GRINNIN, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 34-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
R2-BQ won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 4 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.
This was R2-BQ's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 3rd tracked contest.
Slowly Smoked BBQ Team finished 3rd overall in the first contest the data has them cooking at all.
Pork Ribs places 4–5: Smokin Drums and Qubitas BBQ tied on 170.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 7–8: Slowly Smoked BBQ Team and A LA BAR-BA KOA tied on 168.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 9–10: Kilted Kilby BBQ edged Escuela Hotelera de San Juan by 0.0116.
SHIGGIN & GRINNIN won Pork Ribs, Brisket — a double.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 172.5600 | 171.4172 | 169.1544 |
| Pork Ribs | 176.0116 | 170.8572 | 166.8800 |
| Pork | 177.1428 | 169.1200 | 164.5944 |
| Brisket | 178.2972 | 169.6684 | 162.7884 |
38 entries · top 686.8456 · median 620.2002
38 entries · top 172.5600 · median 161.1258
38 entries · top 176.0116 · median 158.8286
35 entries · top 177.1428 · median 158.8912
35 entries · top 178.2972 · median 153.7144
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.
37 entries · top 173.7256 · median 162.8456