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Best Dam Barbecue 2015

May 22–23, 2015 · Boulder City, NV

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MAR-B-QUE'S BBQ
700.0232 · Master Series — Overall
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BIG POPPA SMOKERS
698.8460 · Master Series — Overall
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LOOT N' BOOTY BBQ
698.8116 · Master Series — Overall

MAR-B-QUE'S BBQ won Grand Champion at the Best Dam Barbecue on May 22, 2015 in Boulder City, NV, scoring 700.0232 in a field of 38 teams. BIG POPPA SMOKERS took Reserve Grand Champion with 698.8460. Category winners: Chicken — LOOT N' BOOTY BBQ (180.0000); Pork Ribs — SIN CITY SMOKERS (177.1428); Pork — SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE SMOKER (178.8572); Brisket — BAD BOYZ BBQ (176.5828). This is the 1st of 2 editions of this contest on record; the next was held in 2016.

The contest at a glance (read off the scored boards)

How the field scored

Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.

How the meats cooked

Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.

  • Chicken 180 🔥
  • Pork Ribs 177.14
  • Pork 178.86
  • Brisket 176.58
116.31 180

Entries

38
4 judged meats

Top score

700.0232

Winning margin

1.1772
GC over RC

Field average

657.25
507.13700.02
median 658.72 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

1 🔥
LOOT N' BOOTY BBQ (Chicken)

Tightest race

Brisket
2.3200 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

673.7372
507.13700.02
10th place overall

Field spread

192.8920
winner to last place

Most consistent

MAR-B-QUE'S BBQ
avg finish 4.50 across 4 meats

Double threats

5
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Chicken
won by 1.1428 pts — LOOT N' BOOTY BBQ

How hot was the win?

Top 32%
beats 68% of 4715 Master Series wins in the data

Form held

Strong
ρ = -0.7 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1,529
avg power rating going in · stronger than 21% of contests

Top-rated in the field

BIG POPPA SMOKERS
rated 1806 pre-contest

Storylines (5 found in this contest's numbers)

Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.

A razor-thin finish

1.1772 points between champion and reserve

Closer than 78% of the 4,714 championships in the data

The Grand Championship was decided by 1.1772 points — closer than 78% of every championship in the data.

  • MAR-B-QUE'S BBQ.
  • BIG POPPA SMOKERS

An upset on the books

33-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings

The ratings favoured the top seed the other 67 times in 100

MAR-B-QUE'S BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, BIG POPPA SMOKERS, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 33-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.

  • champion 1679
  • top seed 1806

Won without a category win

4 of 4 meats called to the stage

MAR-B-QUE'S BBQ won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 4 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.

  • Chicken 5th
  • Pork Ribs 5th
  • Pork 2nd
  • Brisket 6th

Photo finishes

Tie closest of 6 calls decided inside half a point

Chicken places 2–3: BROTHER OF SWEET SMOKE Q and BIG POPPA SMOKERS tied on 178.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 7–8: TEAM AMERICA and BAM BAMS BBQ tied on 169.6800 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 5–6: BULLPEN BBQ TEAM and Infinite Smoke tied on 175.4400 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.

  • Chicken 2–3 · tie
  • Pork Ribs 7–8 · tie
  • Pork 5–6 · tie
  • Brisket 4–5 · 0.0116

A perfect score on the table

1 perfect 180s

1 perfect 180 was scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.

  • LOOT N' BOOTY BBQ · Chicken

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)

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)

This contest over the years full contest page →

DateWhereVenueTeamsHigh scoreGrand ChampionReserve Champion
May 22, 2015 ← this one Boulder City, NV Boulder City, NV 89006 38 700.0232 MAR-B-QUE'S BBQ. BIG POPPA SMOKERS
May 27, 2016 Boulder City, NV Colorado St. 36 706.8228 BIG POPPA SMOKERS RHYTHM 'N QUE

What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)

Category1st5th10th
Chicken180176.0116170.8572
Pork Ribs177.1428173.1544168.5828
Pork178.8572175.4400170.2628
Brisket176.5828174.2628169.1428

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

38 entries · top 700.0232 · median 658.7198

#TeamScore
1 MAR-B-QUE'S BBQ 700.0232
2 BIG POPPA SMOKERS 698.8460
3 LOOT N' BOOTY BBQ 698.8116
4 BROTHER OF SWEET SMOKE Q 695.4516
5 RHYTHM 'N QUE 686.2628
6 SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE SMOKER 686.2516
7 BAD BOYZ BBQ 679.3600
8 VOODOO ZOMBQUE 678.8112
9 TEAM AMERICA 675.3144
10 Infinite Smoke 673.7372
11 SIN CITY SMOKERS 673.6112
12 THUNDERDOME BBQ 667.8628
13 BAM BAMS BBQ 667.3372
14 JESSIE RAE'S BBQ 665.6456
15 The BBQ Asylum 664.4456
16 COW TIPPIN BBQ 663.8860
17 SQUAT AND GOBBLE BARBEQUE 661.0060
18 PIGGY BANK BBQ 658.7884
19 7 KINDS OF SMOKE BBQ 658.7540
20 KNIFE PORK AND SPOON 658.6856
21 SWIMMIN IN SMOKE 658.1944
22 BADCAT'S BBQ TEAM 655.8968
23 17TH STREET BAR & GRILL 655.3488
24 MONSOON BBQ 653.0168
25 PIKE INTERNATIONAL GRILLERS & SMOKERS 652.5256
26 The Smokin' B.A.R. 652.4800
27 SILVER SPUR BBQ 652.4796
28 THE BBQ NERDS 652.4688
29 SMOKEIT BBQ & CATERING 649.0856
30 STOKED TO SMOKE 647.8972
31 Rollin Smoke Barbeque 639.9084
32 Fox Smokehouse BBQ 639.3028
33 Great Basin Cooking Co 634.7204
34 BOURBON BOYS BBQ 633.0284
35 BULLPEN BBQ TEAM 629.1544
36 CHILLIN & GRILLIN 628.4572
37 BUTTS-N-RACKS 621.6116
38 Ozark Mountain BBQ 507.1312

Chicken

38 entries · top 180 · median 167.4400 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 LOOT N' BOOTY BBQ 180 🔥
2 BROTHER OF SWEET SMOKE Q 178.8572
3 BIG POPPA SMOKERS 178.8572
4 BAD BOYZ BBQ 177.1544
5 MAR-B-QUE'S BBQ 176.0116
6 SQUAT AND GOBBLE BARBEQUE 173.1200
7 JESSIE RAE'S BBQ 172
8 KNIFE PORK AND SPOON 171.9772
9 MONSOON BBQ 171.4400
10 VOODOO ZOMBQUE 170.8572
11 BAM BAMS BBQ 170.8572
12 17TH STREET BAR & GRILL 170.2972
13 SILVER SPUR BBQ 170.2744
14 SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE SMOKER 170.2744
15 Fox Smokehouse BBQ 169.1428
16 COW TIPPIN BBQ 169.1200
17 RHYTHM 'N QUE 168.5600
18 THE BBQ NERDS 167.9656
19 Infinite Smoke 167.4400
20 The Smokin' B.A.R. 167.4400
21 BADCAT'S BBQ TEAM 167.4172
22 PIKE INTERNATIONAL GRILLERS & SMOKERS 166.8800
23 7 KINDS OF SMOKE BBQ 166.8228
24 SIN CITY SMOKERS 166.2284
25 The BBQ Asylum 165.7028
26 THUNDERDOME BBQ 165.1316
27 CHILLIN & GRILLIN 164.5944
28 SMOKEIT BBQ & CATERING 164.5600
29 TEAM AMERICA 164.5372
30 BOURBON BOYS BBQ 162.8000
31 BULLPEN BBQ TEAM 162.2972
32 SWIMMIN IN SMOKE 162.2628
33 STOKED TO SMOKE 161.6800
34 Rollin Smoke Barbeque 160.5028
35 PIGGY BANK BBQ 158.7884
36 BUTTS-N-RACKS 153.1200
37 Great Basin Cooking Co 149.6572
38 Ozark Mountain BBQ 144.0228

Pork Ribs

38 entries · top 177.1428 · median 162.8056

#TeamScore
1 SIN CITY SMOKERS 177.1428
2 BIG POPPA SMOKERS 176.5944
3 RHYTHM 'N QUE 175.4172
4 BROTHER OF SWEET SMOKE Q 174.8916
5 MAR-B-QUE'S BBQ 173.1544
6 7 KINDS OF SMOKE BBQ 171.4284
7 TEAM AMERICA 169.6800
8 BAM BAMS BBQ 169.6800
9 SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE SMOKER 169.1200
10 Rollin Smoke Barbeque 168.5828
11 LOOT N' BOOTY BBQ 167.3944
12 VOODOO ZOMBQUE 166.2628
13 JESSIE RAE'S BBQ 164.5600
14 SWIMMIN IN SMOKE 164.5372
15 BAD BOYZ BBQ 163.9544
16 STOKED TO SMOKE 163.9544
17 PIGGY BANK BBQ 162.8572
18 KNIFE PORK AND SPOON 162.8228
19 BADCAT'S BBQ TEAM 162.8112
20 THUNDERDOME BBQ 162.8000
21 Infinite Smoke 162.2972
22 SILVER SPUR BBQ 162.2628
23 The Smokin' B.A.R. 161.7144
24 COW TIPPIN BBQ 161.0972
25 The BBQ Asylum 161.0856
26 BOURBON BOYS BBQ 160.5828
27 SMOKEIT BBQ & CATERING 160.5372
28 THE BBQ NERDS 160.5260
29 17TH STREET BAR & GRILL 159.9772
30 BUTTS-N-RACKS 157.6916
31 Fox Smokehouse BBQ 157.0972
32 Great Basin Cooking Co 155.9660
33 MONSOON BBQ 154.2284
34 SQUAT AND GOBBLE BARBEQUE 153.6688
35 CHILLIN & GRILLIN 150.7772
36 PIKE INTERNATIONAL GRILLERS & SMOKERS 147.9544
37 BULLPEN BBQ TEAM 146.2628
38 Ozark Mountain BBQ 127.4172

Pork

38 entries · top 178.8572 · median 166.8400

#TeamScore
1 SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE SMOKER 178.8572
2 MAR-B-QUE'S BBQ 178.2972
3 LOOT N' BOOTY BBQ 177.1544
4 BROTHER OF SWEET SMOKE Q 176
5 BULLPEN BBQ TEAM 175.4400
6 Infinite Smoke 175.4400
7 COW TIPPIN BBQ 174.8572
8 RHYTHM 'N QUE 172.0228
9 TEAM AMERICA 171.4172
10 THUNDERDOME BBQ 170.2628
11 BIG POPPA SMOKERS 169.1200
12 PIKE INTERNATIONAL GRILLERS & SMOKERS 168.5828
13 STOKED TO SMOKE 168.5600
14 SQUAT AND GOBBLE BARBEQUE 168.5372
15 The BBQ Asylum 168.5372
16 SMOKEIT BBQ & CATERING 167.4284
17 KNIFE PORK AND SPOON 167.3828
18 VOODOO ZOMBQUE 166.8456
19 BOURBON BOYS BBQ 166.8456
20 BAM BAMS BBQ 166.8344
21 THE BBQ NERDS 166.2856
22 17TH STREET BAR & GRILL 166.2400
23 SIN CITY SMOKERS 165.6800
24 The Smokin' B.A.R. 165.1200
25 MONSOON BBQ 164.5372
26 BUTTS-N-RACKS 163.9656
27 JESSIE RAE'S BBQ 163.9656
28 SILVER SPUR BBQ 163.3712
29 Rollin Smoke Barbeque 162.8572
30 SWIMMIN IN SMOKE 162.8344
31 7 KINDS OF SMOKE BBQ 161.7028
32 PIGGY BANK BBQ 161.6800
33 BAD BOYZ BBQ 161.6684
34 Great Basin Cooking Co 161.0972
35 CHILLIN & GRILLIN 158.2628
36 Fox Smokehouse BBQ 156.5256
37 BADCAT'S BBQ TEAM 156.5256
38 Ozark Mountain BBQ 119.3828

Brisket

38 entries · top 176.5828 · median 164.8400

#TeamScore
1 BAD BOYZ BBQ 176.5828
2 PIGGY BANK BBQ 175.4628
3 VOODOO ZOMBQUE 174.8456
4 BIG POPPA SMOKERS 174.2744
5 LOOT N' BOOTY BBQ 174.2628
6 MAR-B-QUE'S BBQ 172.5600
7 RHYTHM 'N QUE 170.2628
8 TEAM AMERICA 169.6800
9 THUNDERDOME BBQ 169.6684
10 BADCAT'S BBQ TEAM 169.1428
11 The BBQ Asylum 169.1200
12 PIKE INTERNATIONAL GRILLERS & SMOKERS 169.1084
13 Infinite Smoke 168.5600
14 SWIMMIN IN SMOKE 168.5600
15 SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE SMOKER 168
16 Great Basin Cooking Co 168
17 BROTHER OF SWEET SMOKE Q 165.7028
18 SQUAT AND GOBBLE BARBEQUE 165.6800
19 JESSIE RAE'S BBQ 165.1200
20 SIN CITY SMOKERS 164.5600
21 MONSOON BBQ 162.8112
22 BAM BAMS BBQ 159.9656
23 17TH STREET BAR & GRILL 158.8344
24 COW TIPPIN BBQ 158.8116
25 7 KINDS OF SMOKE BBQ 158.8000
26 The Smokin' B.A.R. 158.2056
27 THE BBQ NERDS 157.6916
28 SILVER SPUR BBQ 156.5712
29 SMOKEIT BBQ & CATERING 156.5600
30 Fox Smokehouse BBQ 156.5372
31 KNIFE PORK AND SPOON 156.5028
32 CHILLIN & GRILLIN 154.8228
33 STOKED TO SMOKE 153.7028
34 Rollin Smoke Barbeque 147.9656
35 BUTTS-N-RACKS 146.8344
36 BULLPEN BBQ TEAM 145.1544
37 BOURBON BOYS BBQ 142.8000
38 Ozark Mountain BBQ 116.3084

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