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The Jim Bowie BBQ Throwdown

2014-09-26 – 2014-09-27 · Vidalia, LA · 📍 Vidalia, LA 71373

Grand Champion: SOUTH PORK (697.6456) · 31 teams

Reserve Champion: 🥈 GIVE IT TO GOD

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SOUTH PORK
697.6456 · Master Series — Overall
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GIVE IT TO GOD
691.3368 · Master Series — Overall
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MIKE
689.6340 · Master Series — Overall

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.

How the meats cooked

Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.

  • Chicken 180.00 🔥
  • Pork Ribs 177.70
  • Pork 180.00 🔥
  • Brisket 180.00 🔥
117.09 180.00

Entries

31
4 judged meats · 1 ancillary

Top score

697.6456

Winning margin

6.3088
GC over RC

Field average

652.56
545.59697.65
median 653.57 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

3 🔥
BIG WHIT AND THE BOYS (Brisket), Lil John's BBQ (Chicken), THE BLUE BLOODS (Pork)

Tightest race

Pork Ribs
4.5828 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

680.4456
545.59697.65
10th place overall

Field spread

152.0568
winner to last place

Most consistent

MIKE
avg finish 5.00 across 4 meats

Double threats

6
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Brisket
won by 3.9772 pts — BIG WHIT AND THE BOYS

How hot was the win?

Top 43%
beats 57% of 4707 Master Series wins in the data

Form held

Strong
ρ = -0.69 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1534
avg power rating going in · stronger than 25% of contests

Top-rated in the field

MIKE
rated 1751 pre-contest

Storylines (3 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.

Won without a category win

3 of 4 meats called to the stage

SOUTH PORK won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 3 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.

  • Chicken 11th
  • Pork Ribs 4th
  • Pork 2nd
  • Brisket 3rd

A day of perfect scores

3 perfect 180s

3 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.

  • BIG WHIT AND THE BOYS · Brisket
  • Lil John's BBQ · Chicken
  • THE BLUE BLOODS · Pork

Photo finishes

Tie closest of 10 calls decided inside half a point

Chicken places 6–7: MIKE and SWEET DREAMS BBQ tied on 171.4056 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 5–6: CUZ'S CUSTOM COOKING and PICKIN' AND GRILLIN tied on 173.1200 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 4–5: MIKE and GOOD CHEW BBQ tied on 171.4056 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.

  • Chicken 6–7 · tie
  • Pork Ribs 5–6 · tie
  • Pork 4–5 · tie
  • Pork 6–7 · tie

Score curves (score by finishing position — steep cliffs mean a spread field, flat lines a knife fight)

Category showdown (top / average / median score per meat)

Biggest rating movers (power-rating points won and lost at this contest)

Did form hold? (pre-contest rating vs overall finish — ratings called it if the dots climb to the right)

What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)

Category1st5th10th
Chicken180.0000173.7028169.6800
Pork Ribs177.7028173.1200170.8228
Pork180.0000171.4056167.9656
Brisket180.0000173.7028169.1200

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

31 entries · top 697.6456 · median 653.5652

#TeamScore
1 SOUTH PORK 697.6456
2 GIVE IT TO GOD 691.3368
3 MIKE 689.6340
4 BIG WHIT AND THE BOYS 686.7656
5 HOLY MOHLER'S BBQ 686.7656
6 THE BLUE BLOODS 686.1828
7 CUZ'S CUSTOM COOKING 685.6228
8 LIBERTY BBQ 681.5996
9 SWEET DREAMS BBQ 681.5768
10 Lil John's BBQ 680.4456
11 GOOD CHEW BBQ 673.6800
12 PICKIN' AND GRILLIN 673.6340
13 SMOKIN' SOBER...SOMETIMES 668.4800
14 After Hours BBQ 667.3484
15 Compton and Son BBQ Crew 666.7316
16 Smokey and the Pimiento Cheese Bandit 653.5652
17 Daddy Macs 646.1140
18 Too Close for Comfort 644.3772
19 H2 Que 642.7544
20 Delta Piggy Bankers 639.2344
21 R.W. Delaney Construction Company Smokin' Butts 634.1484
22 D&D Fatboys 633.6916
23 Payton's Place BBQ 631.2916
24 Republic of Texas Cookers 629.7144
25 Concordia Bank 627.3716
26 Stumbling M BBQ 624.5028
27 Concordia Metal) 618.2744
28 Red Neck Rump Roasters 614.1144
29 Concordia Communications District - Task Force Smo 614.0916
30 Salvage Cookers 612.9256
31 SmokeDog, Inc. 545.5888

Chicken

31 entries · top 180.0000 · median 165.6800 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 Lil John's BBQ 180.0000 🔥
2 BIG WHIT AND THE BOYS 179.4400
3 CUZ'S CUSTOM COOKING 175.4172
4 GIVE IT TO GOD 174.2628
5 HOLY MOHLER'S BBQ 173.7028
6 MIKE 171.4056
7 SWEET DREAMS BBQ 171.4056
8 Daddy Macs 170.2628
9 After Hours BBQ 169.7028
10 THE BLUE BLOODS 169.6800
11 SOUTH PORK 169.6684
12 GOOD CHEW BBQ 169.1544
13 Compton and Son BBQ Crew 169.1200
14 PICKIN' AND GRILLIN 167.4400
15 Too Close for Comfort 167.3828
16 SMOKIN' SOBER...SOMETIMES 165.6800
17 D&D Fatboys 165.1428
18 LIBERTY BBQ 165.1084
19 Stumbling M BBQ 164.5600
20 Salvage Cookers 162.8344
21 Smokey and the Pimiento Cheese Bandit 161.6568
22 Concordia Communications District - Task Force Smo 159.3828
23 Concordia Bank 158.2744
24 Red Neck Rump Roasters 157.6800
25 Republic of Texas Cookers 156.5944
26 H2 Que 155.9772
27 R.W. Delaney Construction Company Smokin' Butts 154.8456
28 Payton's Place BBQ 153.6800
29 Concordia Metal) 146.3200
30 Delta Piggy Bankers 146.1372
31 SmokeDog, Inc. 117.0856

Pork Ribs

31 entries · top 177.7028 · median 162.8572

#TeamScore
1 MIKE 177.7028
2 GIVE IT TO GOD 177.1428
3 LIBERTY BBQ 176.5600
4 SOUTH PORK 174.2744
5 CUZ'S CUSTOM COOKING 173.1200
6 PICKIN' AND GRILLIN 173.1200
7 Delta Piggy Bankers 172.6172
8 H2 Que 171.4400
9 After Hours BBQ 171.4056
10 HOLY MOHLER'S BBQ 170.8228
11 GOOD CHEW BBQ 170.2628
12 SWEET DREAMS BBQ 169.6684
13 THE BLUE BLOODS 166.8228
14 Stumbling M BBQ 165.1428
15 Compton and Son BBQ Crew 163.9772
16 Smokey and the Pimiento Cheese Bandit 162.8572
17 Red Neck Rump Roasters 161.6688
18 Lil John's BBQ 160.5144
19 SMOKIN' SOBER...SOMETIMES 159.9544
20 BIG WHIT AND THE BOYS 159.9428
21 R.W. Delaney Construction Company Smokin' Butts 158.2744
22 Concordia Metal) 156.5828
23 Concordia Communications District - Task Force Smo 156.5144
24 Salvage Cookers 155.3944
25 Too Close for Comfort 154.8116
26 Payton's Place BBQ 150.8116
27 Concordia Bank 150.2516
28 D&D Fatboys 149.1544
29 Republic of Texas Cookers 149.1200
30 Daddy Macs 148.5144
31 SmokeDog, Inc. 131.9428

Pork

31 entries · top 180.0000 · median 166.2284 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 THE BLUE BLOODS 180.0000 🔥
2 SOUTH PORK 177.7028
3 Republic of Texas Cookers 173.1772
4 MIKE 171.4056
5 GOOD CHEW BBQ 171.4056
6 Lil John's BBQ 170.8228
7 SWEET DREAMS BBQ 170.8228
8 HOLY MOHLER'S BBQ 169.6800
9 PICKIN' AND GRILLIN 169.6684
10 CUZ'S CUSTOM COOKING 167.9656
11 D&D Fatboys 167.4400
12 BIG WHIT AND THE BOYS 167.3828
13 Concordia Bank 166.8800
14 Payton's Place BBQ 166.8344
15 SMOKIN' SOBER...SOMETIMES 166.8228
16 LIBERTY BBQ 166.2284
17 Smokey and the Pimiento Cheese Bandit 165.6684
18 Delta Piggy Bankers 165.1084
19 Compton and Son BBQ Crew 165.0972
20 GIVE IT TO GOD 164.5256
21 Daddy Macs 163.3940
22 After Hours BBQ 162.2628
23 Red Neck Rump Roasters 159.9884
24 R.W. Delaney Construction Company Smokin' Butts 157.0512
25 Too Close for Comfort 154.8000
26 H2 Que 154.2172
27 Concordia Metal) 153.6800
28 Concordia Communications District - Task Force Smo 152.5144
29 Salvage Cookers 149.6340
30 SmokeDog, Inc. 143.9772
31 Stumbling M BBQ 134.2400

Brisket

31 entries · top 180.0000 · median 163.9428 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 BIG WHIT AND THE BOYS 180.0000 🔥
2 SMOKIN' SOBER...SOMETIMES 176.0228
3 SOUTH PORK 176.0000
4 GIVE IT TO GOD 175.4056
5 LIBERTY BBQ 173.7028
6 HOLY MOHLER'S BBQ 172.5600
7 SWEET DREAMS BBQ 169.6800
8 THE BLUE BLOODS 169.6800
9 MIKE 169.1200
10 CUZ'S CUSTOM COOKING 169.1200
11 Lil John's BBQ 169.1084
12 Compton and Son BBQ Crew 168.5372
13 Too Close for Comfort 167.3828
14 After Hours BBQ 163.9772
15 R.W. Delaney Construction Company Smokin' Butts 163.9772
16 Daddy Macs 163.9428
17 PICKIN' AND GRILLIN 163.4056
18 Smokey and the Pimiento Cheese Bandit 163.3828
19 GOOD CHEW BBQ 162.8572
20 Concordia Metal) 161.6916
21 H2 Que 161.1200
22 Stumbling M BBQ 160.5600
23 Payton's Place BBQ 159.9656
24 Delta Piggy Bankers 155.3716
25 SmokeDog, Inc. 152.5832
26 Concordia Bank 151.9656
27 D&D Fatboys 151.9544
28 Republic of Texas Cookers 150.8228
29 Concordia Communications District - Task Force Smo 145.6800
30 Salvage Cookers 145.0628
31 Red Neck Rump Roasters 134.7772

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.

Master Series — Sauce

31 entries · top 176.6172 · median 168.5140

#TeamScore
1 LIBERTY BBQ 176.6172
2 GIVE IT TO GOD 174.2628
3 CUZ'S CUSTOM COOKING 174.2628
4 Lil John's BBQ 173.7028
5 HOLY MOHLER'S BBQ 172.5484
6 Concordia Metal) 172.5484
7 SWEET DREAMS BBQ 171.9656
8 Stumbling M BBQ 171.9656
9 D&D Fatboys 171.9656
10 PICKIN' AND GRILLIN 171.4056
11 GOOD CHEW BBQ 170.2856
12 H2 Que 170.2628
13 SOUTH PORK 169.7372
14 Concordia Communications District - Task Force Smo 169.6684
15 Daddy Macs 168.5484
16 Delta Piggy Bankers 168.5140
17 SmokeDog, Inc. 167.4400
18 MIKE 166.8228
19 Republic of Texas Cookers 166.8228
20 Salvage Cookers 166.2284
21 R.W. Delaney Construction Company Smokin' Butts 165.0856
22 After Hours BBQ 163.9428
23 Smokey and the Pimiento Cheese Bandit 163.9312
24 BIG WHIT AND THE BOYS 163.3712
25 Red Neck Rump Roasters 162.8112
26 Payton's Place BBQ 162.8112
27 THE BLUE BLOODS 162.2284
28 Compton and Son BBQ Crew 161.7028
29 Concordia Bank 161.6340
30 Too Close for Comfort 159.3940
31 SMOKIN' SOBER...SOMETIMES 147.9656

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