2015-04-10 – 2015-04-11 · Harrington, DE · 📍 Harrington, DE 19952
Grand Champion: SAUCE THIS BBQ (683.9428) · 99 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 CHRISTMAS CITY 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 78 times in 100
SAUCE THIS BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, 3 EYZ BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 22-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Sauce This BBQ won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 3 calls from 4 boards, best of them 3rd. Consistency beat fireworks.
This was SAUCE THIS BBQ's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 14th tracked contest.
Brisket places 5–6: SERIAL GRILLER and SMOKIN MO'S BBQ tied on 171.4056 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 6–7: CHRISTMAS CITY BBQ edged LO' -N- SLO' BBQ by 0.0112. Chicken places 3–4: Sauce This BBQ edged SMOKIN MO'S BBQ by 0.0228.
Bigger than 99% of the 5,410 contests in the data
99 teams made this a bigger field than 99% of every contest tracked.
1 perfect 180 was scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 175.4400 | 170.8800 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.7372 | 172.5828 | 169.7028 |
| Pork | 177.7028 | 171.9772 | 167.4628 |
| Brisket | 176.0000 | 171.4056 | 170.2972 |
99 entries · top 683.9428 · median 634.0224
97 entries · top 180.0000 · median 161.1428 · 🔥 perfect 180
99 entries · top 177.7372 · median 158.3544
99 entries · top 177.7028 · median 159.3828
99 entries · top 176.0000 · median 158.8228
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.
13 entries · top 171.9656 · median 154.8572
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | TRIBAL SMOKERS | |
| 2 | Chock Full of Barbecue | |
| 3 | Snow Hillbilly BBQ | |
| 4 | WHITE COLLAR BARBECUE | |
| 5 | Que the Heat | |
| 6 | Smokey and the Bandit | |
| 7 | M & M BBQ | |
| 8 | Hit'N the Sauce | |
| 9 | HOUSE OF HAWG | |
| 10 | DOUBLE "J" BBQ | |
| 11 | Smokin' Baboys | |
| 12 | Balzen' Burrito | |
| 13 | Shallow Pockets |
13 entries · top 158.3544 · median 146.2744
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | TRIBAL SMOKERS | |
| 2 | HOUSE OF HAWG | |
| 3 | WHITE COLLAR BARBECUE | |
| 4 | M & M BBQ | |
| 5 | DOUBLE "J" BBQ | |
| 6 | Hit'N the Sauce | |
| 7 | Snow Hillbilly BBQ | |
| 8 | Chock Full of Barbecue | |
| 9 | Smokey and the Bandit | |
| 10 | Shallow Pockets | |
| 11 | Que the Heat | |
| 12 | Smokin' Baboys | |
| 13 | Balzen' Burrito |
13 entries · top 330.3200 · median 302.2056
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | TRIBAL SMOKERS | |
| 2 | WHITE COLLAR BARBECUE | |
| 3 | Snow Hillbilly BBQ | |
| 4 | Chock Full of Barbecue | |
| 5 | HOUSE OF HAWG | |
| 6 | M & M BBQ | |
| 7 | Hit'N the Sauce | |
| 8 | Smokey and the Bandit | |
| 9 | DOUBLE "J" BBQ | |
| 10 | Que the Heat | |
| 11 | Smokin' Baboys | |
| 12 | Shallow Pockets | |
| 13 | Balzen' Burrito |