A new contest record
683.9540 is the highest overall score this contest has ever produced — past the 681.1432 PORK 'N MINDY set in 2013.
- old record 681.1432
- set 2013 by PORK 'N MINDY
2014-06-27 – 2014-06-28 · Lenexa, KS · 📍 Lenexa, KS 66215 · State championship
Grand Champion: HAROLD'S HOT MEAT SMOKERS (683.9540) · 184 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 FOUR MEN AND A 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.
What it has taken to win here, 2013 to 2016 — this edition picked out.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
683.9540 is the highest overall score this contest has ever produced — past the 681.1432 PORK 'N MINDY set in 2013.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 70 times in 100
HAROLD'S HOT MEAT SMOKERS came in rated below the field's top team, JAESTAR BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 30-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
HAROLD'S HOT MEAT SMOKERS won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 2 calls from 4 boards, best of them 5th. Consistency beat fireworks.
This was HAROLD'S HOT MEAT SMOKERS's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 9th tracked contest.
Chicken places 3–4: BLAZING CATTLES BBQ and KNIGHTS OF THE HOLY GRILL tied on 173.1544 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 3–4: SMOKERS PURGATORY and PARK AVENUE PORK tied on 175.4400 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 4–5: PARK AVENUE PORK and None-the-Weiser tied on 175.4400 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
SOCIAL SMOKERS BBQ SQUAD turned in 178.3200 in brisket — past the 177.1428 that had stood across 1 earlier editions.
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: PORK 'N MINDY (won 2013).
Bigger than 100% of the 5,410 contests in the data
184 teams made this a bigger field than 100% of every contest tracked.
133 of 183 teams from 2013-06-21 came back
133 of the 183 teams that cooked the previous edition came back for this one — a contest people put on the calendar.
Records held by every edition of this contest put together, not just this one afternoon.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-21 | Lenexa, KS | Lenexa, KS | 183 | 681.1432 | PORK 'N MINDY | HUNKA HUNKA BURNIN' RUB |
| 2014-06-27 ← this one | Lenexa, KS | Lenexa, KS 66215 | 184 | 683.9540 | HAROLD'S HOT MEAT SMOKERS | FOUR MEN AND A PIG |
| 2015-06-26 | Lenexa, KS | Lenexa, KS 66215 | 183 | 695.9540 | PELLET ENVY | HIGH i QUE |
| 2016-06-24 | Lenexa, KS | Lenexa, KS | 183 | 697.1084 | BREW 'N' BAR-B-QUE | HIGH i QUE |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 177.1544 | 173.1428 | 170.9144 |
| Pork Ribs | 176.5828 | 175.4400 | 173.1428 |
| Pork | 176.0228 | 173.7028 | 171.4628 |
| Brisket | 178.3200 | 173.1200 | 170.8572 |
184 entries · top 683.9540 · median 631.6284
183 entries · top 177.1544 · median 161.1312
184 entries · top 176.5828 · median 158.5772
183 entries · top 176.0228 · median 158.2400
184 entries · top 178.3200 · median 154.2858
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.
27 entries · top 179.4400 · median 166.3200
123 entries · top 178.8572 · median 159.9884
39 entries · top 180.0000 · median 155.4404 · 🔥 perfect 180
151 entries · top 178.2972 · median 160.5256
13 entries · top 168.5828 · median 158.8112