Jack9 Memorial BBQ Competition
2025-05-24 – 2025-05-25 · La Salette, ON · CANADA · 📍 Ramblin' Road Brewery
Reps: CRAIG MAIDENS, HEATHER MAIDENS
Grand Champion: Cyclone BBQ (684.0344) · 26 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 PRAIRIE SMOKE & SPICE BBQ
Entries
Top score
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Field average
Perfect 180s
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
Field spread
Double threats
How hot was the win?
Traveled in
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Storylines
🪒 A razor-thin finish
The Grand Championship was decided by 1.2228 points — closer than 75% of every championship in the data.
🧳 Out-of-towners took the title
CycloneBBQ took the Grand Championship home to VT.
📸 Photo finishes
Brisket places 8–9: Barrel and Blaze and HASHTAG BBQ tied on 165.7256 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 5–6: BBQ WorX edged PARROTHEAD SMOKERS by 0.0004. Pork Ribs places 4–5: Smokin' Hot Mess BBQ edged BBQ WorX by 0.0112.
🃏 An upset on the books
CycloneBBQ came in rated below the field's top team, Shiggin aint easy, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 30-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)
This contest over the years full contest page →
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-24 ← this one | La Salette, ON | Ramblin' Road Brewery | 26 | 684.0344 | Cyclone BBQ | PRAIRIE SMOKE & SPICE BBQ |
| 2026-05-23 | La Salette, ON | Ramblin' Road Brewery | 20 | 704.5484 | Mean Moe's BBQ | PARROTHEAD SMOKERS |
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 176.5828 | 174.2628 | 168.5372 |
| Pork Ribs | 175.4172 | 167.4288 | 163.4172 |
| Pork | 176.6172 | 168.5484 | 165.6684 |
| Brisket | 178.8572 | 170.2972 | 165.1084 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
26 entries · top 684.0344 · median 645.8740
Chicken
26 entries · top 176.5828 · median 161.1714
Pork Ribs
25 entries · top 175.4172 · median 160.0344
Pork
26 entries · top 176.6172 · median 164.2630
Brisket
26 entries · top 178.8572 · median 161.4056