2015-05-01 – 2015-05-02 · Bixby, OK · 📍 Bixby, OK 74133
Grand Champion: OKIEQ (697.0856) · 81 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 BUFFALO'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.
What it has taken to win here, 2014 to 2022 — 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.
697.0856 is the highest overall score this contest has ever produced — past the 694.8572 WHISKEY PIT BBQ COMPANY set in 2014.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 83 times in 100
OKIEQ came in rated below the field's top team, BUTCHER BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 17-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
OKIEQ won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 3 calls from 4 boards, best of them 3rd. Consistency beat fireworks.
This was OKIEQ's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 5th tracked contest.
Chicken places 4–5: HEAD COUNTRY II and BUTCHER BBQ tied on 175.4172 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 5–6: LITTLE PIG TOWN BBQ and OKIEQ tied on 176.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 7–8: Bruce & Kyle-The Dynamic Duo and SMOKIN BONES tied on 174.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
SPICY SPITFIRE turned in 176.5828 in brisket — past the 173.7372 that had stood across 1 earlier editions.
Bigger than 97% of the 5,410 contests in the data
81 teams made this a bigger field than 97% of every contest tracked.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-02 | Bixby, OK | Bixby, OK 74037 | 80 | 694.8572 | WHISKEY PIT BBQ COMPANY | CLARK CREW BBQ |
| 2015-05-01 ← this one | Bixby, OK | Bixby, OK 74133 | 81 | 697.0856 | OKIEQ | BUFFALO'S BBQ |
| 2019-05-03 | Washington Irving Park | 56 | 700.5484 | T-N-T Que Crew | Fat Boys BBQ--Temple, TX | |
| 2022-05-06 | Bixby, OK | Bixby, OK 74008 | 38 | 706.8344 | Petie's Smokin Pits BBQ | 4 LEGS UP BBQ |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 178.2972 | 175.4172 | 172.5944 |
| Pork Ribs | 179.4400 | 176.0000 | 173.1200 |
| Pork | 179.4400 | 177.7028 | 174.2628 |
| Brisket | 176.5828 | 171.4056 | 169.7372 |
81 entries · top 697.0856 · median 636.4112
76 entries · top 178.2972 · median 162.3028
79 entries · top 179.4400 · median 159.9772
76 entries · top 179.4400 · median 162.8686
79 entries · top 176.5828 · median 157.6800
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.
27 entries · top 175.4516 · median 166.8228
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dirty Sanchez Cue & Brue Crue | |
| 2 | Butt Rubbers Anonymous | |
| 3 | BTC Bastin Tastin Crew | |
| 4 | Bubba-Q-Boys | |
| 5 | Famdamily | |
| 6 | Waste Management | |
| 7 | SMOKE BUSTERS | |
| 8 | BACONATERS | |
| 9 | Kountry Boy Kookers | |
| 10 | HEAD COUNTRY II | |
| 11 | Red Barn BBQ | |
| 12 | LOS PRIMOS BBQ | |
| 13 | RIBEYE REPUBLIC | |
| 14 | Bruce & Kyle-The Dynamic Duo | |
| 15 | SPICY SPITFIRE | |
| 16 | BUFFALO'S BBQ | |
| 17 | Rub-It All Over | |
| 18 | Cayenne Social Club | |
| 19 | UNCLE BC'S | |
| 20 | Smokin Nut'z | |
| 21 | SMOKIN BUTTS | |
| 22 | J-Dub's | |
| 23 | LawnAmerica | |
| 24 | Skunk Eye BBQ | |
| 25 | 3 GUYS SMOKIN | |
| 26 | CLARK CREW BBQ | |
| 27 | Plumb Smokin |