2014-10-10 – 2014-10-11 · Middletown, CT · 📍 Middletown, CT 06457
Grand Champion: THE PERFECT BUTT (674.8228) · 15 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 INSANE SWINE 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.
Closer than 87% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.6056 points — closer than 87% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 81 times in 100
THE PERFECT BUTT came in rated below the field's top team, Rogue Hog BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 19-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
This was THE PERFECT BUTT's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 7th tracked contest.
Chicken places 3–4: INSANE SWINE BBQ edged Rogue Hog BBQ by 0.0112. Chicken places 2–3: Q HAVEN BBQ edged INSANE SWINE BBQ by 0.0116. Pork Ribs places 5–6: Q HAVEN BBQ edged THE PERFECT BUTT by 0.0116.
THE PERFECT BUTT won Pork, Brisket — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
THE PERFECT BUTT took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was pork ribs at 6th.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 169.1200 | 167.4400 | 152.5596 |
| Pork Ribs | 171.4172 | 163.4172 | 149.6572 |
| Pork | 175.4172 | 165.6800 | 150.8228 |
| Brisket | 168.5600 | 162.2628 | 138.8456 |
15 entries · top 674.8228 · median 617.0516
15 entries · top 169.1200 · median 155.4400
15 entries · top 171.4172 · median 160.5716
15 entries · top 175.4172 · median 160.0344
15 entries · top 168.5600 · median 156.5256