2025-10-11 – 2025-10-12 · Luray, VA · 📍 15 Fairlane Dr
Reps: ALAN ROTHROCK, NOEL KAY · Prize money: $3,000.00
Grand Champion: Uncle Dubby's Backyard BBQ (346.8228) · 9 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 FIRE & SHINE 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 713 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.5716 points — closer than 87% of every championship in the data.
This was Uncle Dubby's Backyard BBQ's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 70th tracked contest.
Wit's End finished 3rd overall in the first contest the data has them cooking at all.
Pork Ribs places 3–4: FIRE & SHINE BBQ and Smokin' Dad's Barbecue tied on 171.4056 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 5–6: Wit's End and The Swine Doctor's BBQ tied on 169.1316 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 7–8: Bone A Fide edged Better Half Barbecue by 0.0344.
What happened at this contest that stands in the all-time KCBS record book. A gold line is a record nobody has beaten.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 176.5944 | 173.1200 | — |
| Pork Ribs | 173.7028 | 169.1316 | — |
9 entries · top 346.8228 · median 340.5484
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uncle Dubby's Backyard BBQ | |
| 2 | FIRE & SHINE BBQ | |
| 3 | Wit's End | |
| 4 | Capt. Blue BBQ | |
| 5 | Bone A Fide | |
| 6 | The Swine Doctor's BBQ | |
| 7 | Better Half Barbecue | |
| 8 | Crossroads BBQ | |
| 9 | Smokin' Dad's Barbecue |
9 entries · top 176.5944 · median 173.1200
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wit's End | |
| 2 | FIRE & SHINE BBQ | |
| 3 | Capt. Blue BBQ | |
| 4 | Bone A Fide | |
| 5 | Uncle Dubby's Backyard BBQ | |
| 6 | Crossroads BBQ | |
| 7 | Better Half Barbecue | |
| 8 | The Swine Doctor's BBQ | |
| 9 | Smokin' Dad's Barbecue |
9 entries · top 173.7028 · median 169.1316
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uncle Dubby's Backyard BBQ | |
| 2 | Capt. Blue BBQ | |
| 3 | FIRE & SHINE BBQ | |
| 4 | Smokin' Dad's Barbecue | |
| 5 | Wit's End | |
| 6 | The Swine Doctor's BBQ | |
| 7 | Bone A Fide | |
| 8 | Better Half Barbecue | |
| 9 | Crossroads BBQ |