2014-10-10 – 2014-10-11 · Topeka, KS · 📍 Topeka, KS 66605
Grand Champion: BLACK EYE BBQ (696.5488) · 37 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Boxer Q 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 71 times in 100
BLACK EYE BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, Four Men and A Pig, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 29-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
This was BLACK EYE BBQ's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 15th tracked contest.
Chicken places 1–2: 777 BBQ and FOUR MEN AND A PIG tied on 177.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 9–10: Boxer Q BBQ and DOVER BOYS BBQ tied on 169.6800 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 2–3: BLACK EYE BBQ and SOMETHING BORROWED SOMETHING BLUE BBQ tied on 167.4172 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
BLACK EYE BBQ won Pork Ribs, Pork — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
BLACK EYE BBQ took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was chicken at 3rd.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 177.7028 | 172.5600 | 166.2972 |
| Pork Ribs | 179.4400 | 170.2972 | 169.6800 |
| Pork | 175.4172 | 171.9888 | 164.0456 |
| Brisket | 177.7028 | 166.8228 | 161.6684 |
37 entries · top 696.5488 · median 628.4684
36 entries · top 177.7028 · median 162.5428
37 entries · top 179.4400 · median 161.7372
36 entries · top 175.4172 · median 159.3942
37 entries · top 177.7028 · median 153.0856
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.
22 entries · top 180.0000 · median 170.2914 · 🔥 perfect 180
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ROOSTER'S DOUBLE BARREL SMOKERS AND LENEXA RATTLER | |
| 2 | INDIGO PIG | |
| 3 | Smoking Pallet | |
| 4 | BLUE BUCKET BBQ | |
| 5 | NORTHSIDE PORKERS | |
| 6 | R U Rdy 4 BBQ | |
| 7 | T-Town Drunken Monkees | |
| 8 | DOCTOR QUE | |
| 9 | DOVER BOYS BBQ | |
| 10 | DREW-B-QUE | |
| 11 | DARKSIDE BBQ | |
| 12 | SILVER FOX BBQ | |
| 13 | 3 Sauce'D Pigs | |
| 14 | BLACK EYE BBQ | |
| 15 | TENDER BUTTS | |
| 16 | TIPSY PIGS | |
| 17 | Rev N Robs Brew & BBQ | |
| 18 | BLUE COLLAR BBQ | |
| 19 | SCIENTIST OF SWINE | |
| 20 | Perky's | |
| 21 | Chilidog BBQ | |
| 22 | 2 COOKS AND A MECHANIC |