2014-06-06 – 2014-06-07 · Lee's Summit, MO · 📍 Lee's Summit, MO 64063
Grand Champion: SMOOTH SMOKE (686.8004) · 79 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 PELLET ENVY
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.
What it has taken to win here, 2013 to 2019 — this edition picked out.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
Closer than 86% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.6292 points — closer than 86% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 69 times in 100
SMOOTH SMOKE came in rated below the field's top team, BURNT FINGER BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 31-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
SMOOTH SMOKE won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 2 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.
This was SMOOTH SMOKE's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 16th tracked contest.
Chicken places 5–6: GETTIN' BASTED and PELLET ENVY tied on 174.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 1–2: BUILDING SMOKE and BURNT FINGER BBQ tied on 177.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 1–2: WALDO BBQ and LIL' SMOKERS tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
RIB CAGE BBQ turned in 177.7028 in chicken — past the 173.7142 that had stood across 1 earlier editions.
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: THESLABS.COM (won 2013).
Bigger than 97% of the 5,410 contests in the data
79 teams made this a bigger field than 97% of every contest tracked.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-07 | Lees Summit, MO | Lees Summit, MO | 81 | 690.2858 | THESLABS.COM | COUNTY LINE SMOKERS |
| 2014-06-06 ← this one | Lee's Summit, MO | Lee's Summit, MO 64063 | 79 | 686.8004 | SMOOTH SMOKE | PELLET ENVY |
| 2015-06-05 | Lee's Summit, MO | Lee's Summit, MO 64063 | 78 | 696.5028 | SLAPS BBQ | TEAM GETTING SAUCED |
| 2017-06-02 | Lee's Summit, MO | Unity Village | 65 | 708.0000 | SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ | CHARCOAL MONKEY |
| 2018-06-01 | Lee's Summit, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2019-07-19 | Unity Village, MO | 1901 NW Blue Parkway | 35 | 705.6916 | DIRT ROAD BBQ | 4 LEGS UP BBQ |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 177.7028 | 174.2628 | 171.4400 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.7028 | 173.7144 | 172.0000 |
| Pork | 176.0000 | 173.1084 | 169.6684 |
| Brisket | 176.5600 | 174.2628 | 168.5372 |
79 entries · top 686.8004 · median 637.6228
78 entries · top 177.7028 · median 159.7028
78 entries · top 177.7028 · median 161.1372
79 entries · top 176.0000 · median 160.5028
79 entries · top 176.5600 · median 156.5372
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.
13 entries · top 179.4400 · median 170.2972
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | JACKSON JONES | |
| 2 | ASHER JINBRA | |
| 3 | BBQUTIES | |
| 4 | NATHAN HAYS | |
| 5 | MORGAN EDWARDS | |
| 6 | Molly Leighninger | |
| 7 | CANDEN PRESTON | |
| 8 | CARDINE FRY | |
| 9 | MASON ROBERTSON | |
| 10 | COOPER NICKLE | |
| 11 | ANNA HAYS | |
| 12 | EMILY METTLACH | |
| 13 | ALAN ATKINS |
5 entries · top 176.5828 · median 169.1428
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | DYLAN HAZZARD | |
| 2 | Colby Preston | |
| 3 | LACY MILLER | |
| 4 | MADYSEN BRESSETTE | |
| 5 | JORDAN BRESSETTE |