Bean Town BBQ Cookoff
2025-10-11 – 2025-10-12 · Bow Island, AB · CANADA · 📍 1121 Centre St
Reps: BRENDA BLACK, KEN BLACK
Grand Champion: Effin'Eh Gray's (677.5996) · 15 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 SMOKIN' OUTLAWS
Entries
Top score
Winning margin
Field average
Perfect 180s
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
Field spread
Double threats
How hot was the win?
Traveled in
Form held
Field strength
Storylines
🧹 A double category winner
EFFIN'EH GRAY'S won Pork Ribs, Brisket — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
📸 Photo finishes
Chicken places 4–5: BIGG SMOAK BBQ and Bottle Hill BBQ tied on 170.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 2–3: OWENS BBQ edged Brisket Butts by 0.0228. Brisket places 2–3: DIDY SMOKE IT edged Syndicate BBQ by 0.0228.
🃏 An upset on the books
EFFIN'EH GRAY'S came in rated below the field's top team, BIGG SMOAK BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 28-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 | 176.0000 | 170.2628 | 165.0856 |
| Pork Ribs | 173.1200 | 167.4400 | 161.0972 |
| Pork | 170.2972 | 166.8456 | 161.6572 |
| Brisket | 175.4056 | 166.2628 | 161.0856 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
15 entries · top 677.5996 · median 656.9824
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | EFFIN'EH GRAY'S | |
| 2 | SMOKIN' OUTLAWS | |
| 3 | Phantom Smoke & BBQ | |
| 4 | Bottle Hill BBQ | |
| 5 | BIGG SMOAK BBQ | |
| 6 | Brisket Butts | |
| 7 | Panther BBQ | |
| 8 | OWENS BBQ | |
| 9 | Syndicate BBQ | |
| 10 | Mc Que It | |
| 11 | No Measurements BBQ | |
| 12 | KillerbunnyBBQ | |
| 13 | DIDY SMOKE IT | |
| 14 | ROKER Q | |
| 15 | Elbow Grease |
Chicken
15 entries · top 176.0000 · median 166.8228
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phantom Smoke & BBQ | |
| 2 | Brisket Butts | |
| 3 | SMOKIN' OUTLAWS | |
| 4 | BIGG SMOAK BBQ | |
| 5 | Bottle Hill BBQ | |
| 6 | Mc Que It | |
| 7 | No Measurements BBQ | |
| 8 | OWENS BBQ | |
| 9 | Panther BBQ | |
| 10 | DIDY SMOKE IT | |
| 11 | EFFIN'EH GRAY'S | |
| 12 | Elbow Grease | |
| 13 | KillerbunnyBBQ | |
| 14 | ROKER Q | |
| 15 | Syndicate BBQ |
Pork Ribs
15 entries · top 173.1200 · median 165.1428
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | EFFIN'EH GRAY'S | |
| 2 | Panther BBQ | |
| 3 | Bottle Hill BBQ | |
| 4 | Syndicate BBQ | |
| 5 | SMOKIN' OUTLAWS | |
| 6 | Phantom Smoke & BBQ | |
| 7 | BIGG SMOAK BBQ | |
| 8 | KillerbunnyBBQ | |
| 9 | OWENS BBQ | |
| 10 | No Measurements BBQ | |
| 11 | Brisket Butts | |
| 12 | DIDY SMOKE IT | |
| 13 | Mc Que It | |
| 14 | ROKER Q | |
| 15 | Elbow Grease |
Pork
15 entries · top 170.2972 · median 164.5256
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BIGG SMOAK BBQ | |
| 2 | OWENS BBQ | |
| 3 | Brisket Butts | |
| 4 | SMOKIN' OUTLAWS | |
| 5 | Panther BBQ | |
| 6 | No Measurements BBQ | |
| 7 | EFFIN'EH GRAY'S | |
| 8 | Bottle Hill BBQ | |
| 9 | Phantom Smoke & BBQ | |
| 10 | Syndicate BBQ | |
| 11 | KillerbunnyBBQ | |
| 12 | Mc Que It | |
| 13 | ROKER Q | |
| 14 | DIDY SMOKE IT | |
| 15 | Elbow Grease |
Brisket
15 entries · top 175.4056 · median 163.9884
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | EFFIN'EH GRAY'S | |
| 2 | DIDY SMOKE IT | |
| 3 | Syndicate BBQ | |
| 4 | Bottle Hill BBQ | |
| 5 | SMOKIN' OUTLAWS | |
| 6 | Phantom Smoke & BBQ | |
| 7 | BIGG SMOAK BBQ | |
| 8 | Brisket Butts | |
| 9 | Mc Que It | |
| 10 | KillerbunnyBBQ | |
| 11 | Panther BBQ | |
| 12 | No Measurements BBQ | |
| 13 | OWENS BBQ | |
| 14 | ROKER Q | |
| 15 | Elbow Grease |
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.
Ancillary — Anything Thanksgiving - Amateurs
8 entries · top 170.8572 · median 164.8456
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dave Brazeau | |
| 2 | Jennifer Mitchell | |
| 3 | Lynnan Roczkowsky | |
| 4 | Alex Fancy | |
| 5 | Daryl Rasmussen | |
| 6 | Rita Stevens | |
| 7 | Shirley Rasmussen | |
| 8 | Ashton Wikkerink |
Ancillary — Anything Thanksgiving - Pros
10 entries · top 172.5600 · median 166.5486
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brisket Butts | |
| 2 | Alex Fancy | |
| 3 | ROKER Q | |
| 4 | Panther BBQ | |
| 5 | Bottle Hill BBQ | |
| 6 | OWENS BBQ | |
| 7 | No Measurements BBQ | |
| 8 | Elbow Grease | |
| 9 | KillerbunnyBBQ | |
| 10 | EFFIN'EH GRAY'S |
Kids-Q — Turkey
2 entries · top 170.2628 · median 167.9828
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rye Rye the BBQ Kid | |
| 2 | Tamara Kirkpatrick |