2015-09-04 – 2015-09-05 · Myrtle Beach, SC · 📍 Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
Grand Champion: SMOKIN SKULLIES (687.3828) · 20 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 BIG DADDY Q - FL
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 75% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 1.6800 points — closer than 75% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 68 times in 100
SMOKIN SKULLIES came in rated below the field's top team, SAUCED! BBQ TEAM, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 32-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Chicken places 2–3: BIG SHOW BBQ COOKIN' TEAM and Smokin' Gringo's BBQ tied on 177.7144 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 5–6: SMOKE CENTRAL BBQ and SAUCED! BBQ TEAM tied on 173.1428 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 7–8: BIG SHOW BBQ COOKIN' TEAM and Smokin' Gringo's BBQ tied on 165.1428 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
SMOKIN SKULLIES took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was brisket at 8th.
1 perfect 180 was scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-09-04 ← this one | Myrtle Beach, SC | Myrtle Beach, SC 29577 | 20 | 687.3828 | SMOKIN SKULLIES | BIG DADDY Q - FL |
| 2017-09-01 | Myrtle Beach, SC | 950 Crabtree lane | 25 | 691.3716 | THE SMOKEHOUSE MAFIA | SAUCED! BBQ TEAM |
| 2018-11-02 | Myrtle Beach, SC | — | — | — | — | — |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 178.8572 | 173.1428 | 166.2628 |
| Pork Ribs | 180.0000 | 170.8572 | 164.0116 |
| Pork | 179.4400 | 169.1200 | 165.1200 |
| Brisket | 174.2628 | 166.8344 | 162.8572 |
20 entries · top 687.3828 · median 659.9430
20 entries · top 178.8572 · median 165.9942
20 entries · top 180.0000 · median 163.1544 · 🔥 perfect 180
20 entries · top 179.4400 · median 163.7200
19 entries · top 174.2628 · median 162.8572
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.
9 entries · top 171.4172 · median 154.8456