2015-08-07 – 2015-08-08 · Floyd, VA · 📍 Floyd, VA 24091
Grand Champion: GAME ON BBQ (696.5144) · 27 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 WOLF'S REVENGE 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.
What it has taken to win here, 2013 to 2015 — 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.
696.5144 is the highest overall score this contest has ever produced — past the 694.7884 CHIX, SWINE & BOVINE BBQ set in 2014.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 88 times in 100
GAME ON BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, CHECKERED PIG, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 12-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
This was GAME ON BBQ's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 10th tracked contest.
2 of 3 tracked editions
CHIX, SWINE & BOVINE BBQ has won this contest 2 times across its 3 tracked editions.
Chicken places 9–10: BAM BAM'S BBQ WINCHESTER VA and THE BIG WHISKEY BBQ CO. tied on 166.2284 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 5–6: UNDER THE RADAR and FAT N HAPPY SMOKERS & POKERS tied on 173.1200 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 9–10: UNDER THE RADAR edged OLD VIRGINIA SMOKE by 0.0112.
CONTAGIOUS Q won Chicken, Pork Ribs — a double.
GAME ON BBQ took the title on 3 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was pork at 16th.
CONTAGIOUS Q turned in 180.0000 in pork ribs — past the 176.5828 that had stood across 2 earlier editions.
This contest usually draws about 19 teams
27 teams is the deepest field this contest has drawn in the data, against a typical 19.
2 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-09-13 | Floyd, VA | Floyd, VA | 16 | 679.9312 | CHIX, SWINE & BOVINE BBQ | ROCK'S MONEY PIT BBQ |
| 2014-09-12 | Floyd, VA | Floyd, VA 24120 | 21 | 694.7884 | CHIX, SWINE & BOVINE BBQ | 4:20 Q |
| 2015-08-07 ← this one | Floyd, VA | Floyd, VA 24091 | 27 | 696.5144 | GAME ON BBQ | WOLF'S REVENGE BBQ |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 177.7028 | 173.7144 | 166.2284 |
| Pork Ribs | 180.0000 | 174.2744 | 170.2744 |
| Pork | 177.7144 | 174.2628 | 169.6684 |
| Brisket | 180.0000 | 173.1200 | 166.8456 |
27 entries · top 696.5144 · median 664.0000
27 entries · top 177.7028 · median 165.6800
27 entries · top 180.0000 · median 165.6800 · 🔥 perfect 180
27 entries · top 177.7144 · median 169.1200
27 entries · top 180.0000 · median 165.0972 · 🔥 perfect 180
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.
10 entries · top 180.0000 · median 170.5714 · 🔥 perfect 180