2014-09-26 – 2014-09-27 · Allentown, PA · 📍 Allentown, PA 18044
Grand Champion: Q HAVEN BBQ (676.6056) · 32 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 LO' -N- SLO' BBQ
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
Q HAVEN BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, 4:20 Q, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 34-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Pork Ribs places 1–2: PIGHEADED BBQ and TOO ASHAMED TO NAME tied on 173.1544 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 3–4: 4:20 Q and 5-0 BBQ tied on 169.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 7–8: TOO ASHAMED TO NAME edged PALM TREE SMOKEHOUSE by 0.0116.
Q HAVEN BBQ took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was pork at 10th.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 175.4400 | 171.4172 | 162.8344 |
| Pork Ribs | 173.1544 | 169.1772 | 163.3828 |
| Pork | 169.1084 | 166.2284 | 163.4172 |
| Brisket | 170.8800 | 167.9656 | 165.6800 |
31 entries · top 676.6056 · median 625.5884
30 entries · top 175.4400 · median 160.8228
31 entries · top 173.1544 · median 155.9428
31 entries · top 169.1084 · median 158.2628
31 entries · top 170.8800 · median 153.0744
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.
11 entries · top 170.2856 · median 158.3084
11 entries · top 170.2856 · median 158.3084