2015-09-11 – 2015-09-12 · Chicago, IL · 📍 Chicago, IL 60645
Grand Champion: OKLAHOMA JOE'S SERIOUS QUE (698.2744) · 61 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 MUD'S 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.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 66 times in 100
OKLAHOMA JOE'S SERIOUS QUE came in rated below the field's top team, YELLOW RIVER BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 34-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Pork places 2–3: #Porkmafia and Leeps Supply Bringing the Heat tied on 176.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 8–9: YELLOW RIVER BBQ and RACK MASTERS BBQ tied on 171.9656 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 8–9: MEATSMACK and MUD'S BBQ tied on 170.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
OKLAHOMA JOE'S SERIOUS QUE took the title on 3 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was pork at 22nd.
Bigger than 93% of the 5,410 contests in the data
61 teams made this a bigger field than 93% of every contest tracked.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 178.2972 | 176.5600 | 172.0000 |
| Pork Ribs | 178.8800 | 176.0000 | 170.2744 |
| Pork | 178.8572 | 173.7144 | 170.8572 |
| Brisket | 176.0116 | 171.9656 | 169.6684 |
61 entries · top 698.2744 · median 642.1372
61 entries · top 178.2972 · median 162.8228
61 entries · top 178.8800 · median 161.7144
61 entries · top 178.8572 · median 165.1428
61 entries · top 176.0116 · median 157.1088