2015-09-25 – 2015-09-26 · Oak Grove, MO · 📍 Oak Grove, MO 64100
Grand Champion: VALLEY OAKS STEAK COMPANY (693.0740) · 16 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 SHUT THE FRONT DOOR 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.
Closer than 81% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 1.1428 points — closer than 81% of every championship in the data.
This was VALLEY OAKS STEAK COMPANY's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 37th tracked contest.
Pork Ribs places 9–10: Slingin Meat and Rollin Smoke and BULLETS AND BUTTS tied on 158.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 1–2: Slingin Meat and Rollin Smoke and PARROTHEAD SMOKERS tied on 173.7144 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 5–6: Bone-Rubs-N-Harmony edged NOOBQ by 0.0112.
VALLEY OAKS STEAK COMPANY took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was chicken at 8th.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 176.0000 | 170.9144 | 165.0972 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.7028 | 170.2856 | 158.2628 |
| Pork | 178.2972 | 173.1428 | 165.1200 |
| Brisket | 173.7144 | 171.4172 | 165.1544 |
16 entries · top 693.0740 · median 661.4574
16 entries · top 176.0000 · median 166.2512
16 entries · top 177.7028 · median 161.1142
16 entries · top 178.2972 · median 165.9828
16 entries · top 173.7144 · median 166.5370
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.
4 entries · top 174.3316 · median 170.2686
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | VALLEY OAKS STEAK COMPANY | |
| 2 | NOOBQ | |
| 3 | PORKARITAVILLE | |
| 4 | I'M RUBBIN IT |