Spencerville Smoke Ring
2025-09-27 – 2025-09-28 · Spencerville, K0E 1X0 · CANADA · 📍 22 Ryan Street
Reps: CRAIG MAIDENS, HEATHER MAIDENS
Grand Champion: BBQ WorX (702.2628) · 14 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 MEAN MOE'S BBQ
Entries
Top score
Winning margin
Field average
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
Field spread
Double threats
How hot was the win?
Form held
Field strength
Storylines
📸 Photo finishes
Pork Ribs places 2–3: MEAN MOE'S BBQ and BBQ WorX tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 8–9: Crooked Rubz and What For BBQ tied on 168.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 9–10: What the Pork? edged BBQ WorX by 0.0228.
🃏 An upset on the books
BBQ WorX came in rated below the field's top team, MEAN MOE'S BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 34-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
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)
Score distribution
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)
Where the field came from (home regions on file)
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 177.1428 | 169.1200 |
| Pork Ribs | 178.8572 | 174.2628 | 167.4284 |
| Pork | 178.2972 | 174.2628 | 167.3940 |
| Brisket | 178.8800 | 171.4628 | 163.3828 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
14 entries · top 702.2628 · median 681.9142
Chicken
14 entries · top 180.0000 · median 173.7200 · 🔥 perfect 180
Pork Ribs
14 entries · top 178.8572 · median 171.1200
Pork
14 entries · top 178.2972 · median 168.5600
Brisket
14 entries · top 178.8800 · median 166.2514
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.
Kids-Q — Sausage 10+
2 entries · top 174.2856 · median 173.7142
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meat Heads Jr | |
| 2 | Chicken Bacon Ranch JR |