2025-10-24 – 2025-10-25 · Rocky Mount, NC · 📍 101 Coastline Street · State championship
Reps: ALAN ROTHROCK, DOUG REID · Prize money: $18,900.00
Grand Champion: Smoke Central (705.1200) · 45 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 SMOKIN SKULLIES
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, 2014 to 2025 — 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.
705.1200 is the highest overall score this contest has ever produced — past the 692.5372 REDNECK SCIENTIFIC set in 2014.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 73 times in 100
Smoke Central BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, ROOTERS-N-TOOTERS TN, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 27-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
2 of 3 tracked editions
REDNECK SCIENTIFIC has won this contest 2 times across its 3 tracked editions.
Chicken places 3–4: SMOKIN SKULLIES and GOOD GOOGLY GOO BBQ tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 7–8: ALPINE SMOKE WORKS and WOLF'S REVENGE BBQ tied on 174.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 8–9: WOLF'S REVENGE BBQ and TWISTED PAIR BBQ tied on 174.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
Smoke Central BBQ won Chicken, Brisket — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
Smoke Central BBQ took the title on 3 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was pork at 15th.
HalaQyah BBQ turned in 178.2972 in pork — past the 176.5716 that had stood across 2 earlier editions.
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: REDNECK SCIENTIFIC (won 2014, 2015).
This contest was away for 10 years — the previous tracked edition ran on 2015-10-09.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-10 | Rocky Mount, NC | Rocky Mount, NC 27804 | 53 | 692.5372 | REDNECK SCIENTIFIC | WARREN COUNTY PORK CHOPPERS |
| 2015-10-09 | Rocky Mount, NC | Rocky Mount, NC 27802 | 49 | 686.8688 | REDNECK SCIENTIFIC | SMOKE THIS |
| 2025-10-24 ← this one | Rocky Mount, NC | 101 Coastline Street | 45 | 705.1200 | Smoke Central | SMOKIN SKULLIES |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 178.2972 | 175.4400 | 173.7028 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.7144 | 175.4172 | 174.2744 |
| Pork | 178.2972 | 176.0000 | 173.1200 |
| Brisket | 179.4400 | 175.4056 | 173.1200 |
45 entries · top 705.1200 · median 675.8628
45 entries · top 178.2972 · median 170.8228
44 entries · top 177.7144 · median 170.2514
45 entries · top 178.2972 · median 169.6800
45 entries · top 179.4400 · median 167.9772