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Burg Fest BBQ Contest

2015-09-25 – 2015-09-26 · Warrensburg, MO · 📍 Warrensburg, MO

Grand Champion: PELLET ENVY (698.3088) · 19 teams

Reserve Champion: 🥈 SLAPS BBQ

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698.3088 · Master Series — Overall
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691.4288 · Master Series — Overall
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679.4060 · Master Series — Overall

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 180.00 🔥
  • Pork Ribs 175.42
  • Pork 176.00
  • Brisket 179.44
136.57 180.00

Entries

19
4 judged meats · 1 ancillary

Top score

698.3088

Winning margin

6.8800
GC over RC

Field average

654.45
594.74698.31
median 649.60 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

1 🔥
HOT WACHULA'S (Chicken)

Tightest race

Pork
6.8340 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

649.6000
594.74698.31
10th place overall

Field spread

103.5660
winner to last place

Most consistent

avg finish 3.25 across 4 meats

Double threats

6
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Pork Ribs
won by 2.2628 pts — BIG WOODIE BBQ

How hot was the win?

Top 39%
beats 61% of 4707 Master Series wins in the data

Came back for more

32%
7 of 22 teams from the previous edition returned

Form held

Strong
ρ = -0.86 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1583
avg power rating going in · stronger than 66% of contests

Top-rated in the field

rated 1806 pre-contest

Storylines (8 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 new contest record

698.3088 highest overall ever cooked here

698.3088 is the highest overall score this contest has ever produced — past the 692.5600 PELLET ENVY set in 2014.

  • old record 692.5600
  • set 2014 by PELLET ENVY

Back-to-back

2 in a row editions of this contest

PELLET ENVY won here last time out too — 2 straight editions of this contest.

  • 2014
  • 2015

A dynasty in the making

wins at this contest

2 of 2 tracked editions

PELLET ENVY has won this contest 2 times across its 2 tracked editions.

  • 2014
  • 2015

Photo finishes

Tie closest of 6 calls decided inside half a point

Pork Ribs places 6–7: HOT WACHULA'S and PELLET ENVY tied on 166.8344 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 7–8: SLAPS BBQ edged BELLY DOWN BBQ by 0.0116. Pork places 6–7: BELLY DOWN BBQ edged NICKLE BOYS BBQ by 0.0228.

  • Pork Ribs 6–7 · tie
  • Chicken 7–8 · 0.0116
  • Pork 6–7 · 0.0228
  • Pork 5–6 · 0.0232

How the title was won

4 of 4 meats called to the stage

PELLET ENVY took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was pork ribs at 7th.

  • Chicken 3rd
  • Pork Ribs 7th
  • Pork 1st
  • Brisket 2nd

A contest record in brisket

179.4400 best brisket ever cooked here

SLAPS BBQ turned in 179.4400 in brisket — past the 173.1084 that had stood across 1 earlier editions.

  • old best 173.1084
  • across 1 past editions

Back to defend

1 past champions back in the field

Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: PELLET ENVY (won 2014).

  • PELLET ENVY · 2014

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.

  • HOT WACHULA'S · 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
2014-09-26 Warrensburg, MO Warrensburg, MO 64093 22 692.5600 PELLET ENVY SMOKEAHOLICS
2015-09-25 ← this one Warrensburg, MO Warrensburg, MO 19 698.3088 PELLET ENVY SLAPS BBQ

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

Category1st5th10th
Chicken180.0000172.0228164.5600
Pork Ribs175.4172167.4172163.4172
Pork176.0000169.1660167.9772
Brisket179.4400171.4172162.8456

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

19 entries · top 698.3088 · median 649.6000

#TeamScore
1 PELLET ENVY 698.3088
2 SLAPS BBQ 691.4288
3 HOT WACHULA'S 679.4060
4 FOUR MEN AND A PIG 676.4572
5 BIG WOODIE BBQ 675.9084
6 MAN VS QUE 674.2860
7 TRUE SMOKE BBQ 673.6916
8 A GOOD RUB BBQ 671.3372
9 BIG WIGS BBQ 664.9828
10 MILLER'S BARNYARD BARBEQUE 649.6000
11 BELLY DOWN BBQ 649.0288
12 Fairlane 645.6576
13 NICKLE BOYS BBQ 643.3032
14 B TEAM BBQ MO 642.8460
15 SWEET & SASSY 641.6228
16 Smokin Slow BBQ 637.0288
17 Not B Team 628.4456
18 PORK STARS 596.4232
19 DOUBLE D 594.7428

Chicken

19 entries · top 180.0000 · median 164.5600 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 HOT WACHULA'S 180.0000 🔥
2 FOUR MEN AND A PIG 178.8572
3 PELLET ENVY 176.5944
4 SWEET & SASSY 173.1428
5 TRUE SMOKE BBQ 172.0228
6 A GOOD RUB BBQ 171.4056
7 SLAPS BBQ 170.2744
8 BELLY DOWN BBQ 170.2628
9 BIG WIGS BBQ 167.4172
10 MILLER'S BARNYARD BARBEQUE 164.5600
11 NICKLE BOYS BBQ 161.6916
12 Smokin Slow BBQ 161.1200
13 B TEAM BBQ MO 161.1200
14 MAN VS QUE 160.5256
15 Not B Team 159.4056
16 BIG WOODIE BBQ 158.8000
17 Fairlane 157.7144
18 DOUBLE D 151.3828
19 PORK STARS 145.6572

Pork Ribs

19 entries · top 175.4172 · median 163.4172

#TeamScore
1 BIG WOODIE BBQ 175.4172
2 SLAPS BBQ 173.1544
3 MAN VS QUE 172.5944
4 TRUE SMOKE BBQ 167.9772
5 A GOOD RUB BBQ 167.4172
6 HOT WACHULA'S 166.8344
7 PELLET ENVY 166.8344
8 BIG WIGS BBQ 166.2400
9 FOUR MEN AND A PIG 163.9772
10 Not B Team 163.4172
11 Fairlane 163.3944
12 MILLER'S BARNYARD BARBEQUE 161.0972
13 NICKLE BOYS BBQ 159.9428
14 PORK STARS 158.8688
15 Smokin Slow BBQ 155.4060
16 B TEAM BBQ MO 153.7260
17 SWEET & SASSY 153.6456
18 BELLY DOWN BBQ 152.5260
19 DOUBLE D 136.5716

Pork

19 entries · top 176.0000 · median 167.9772

#TeamScore
1 PELLET ENVY 176.0000
2 B TEAM BBQ MO 174.8800
3 Smokin Slow BBQ 172.0000
4 HOT WACHULA'S 169.7260
5 MAN VS QUE 169.1660
6 BELLY DOWN BBQ 169.1428
7 NICKLE BOYS BBQ 169.1200
8 SLAPS BBQ 168.5600
9 FOUR MEN AND A PIG 168.5256
10 A GOOD RUB BBQ 167.9772
11 MILLER'S BARNYARD BARBEQUE 167.3828
12 BIG WOODIE BBQ 165.6912
13 SWEET & SASSY 165.1772
14 TRUE SMOKE BBQ 162.2744
15 BIG WIGS BBQ 160.5028
16 Fairlane 159.4172
17 DOUBLE D 158.8456
18 Not B Team 153.6456
19 PORK STARS 150.8228

Brisket

19 entries · top 179.4400 · median 162.8456

#TeamScore
1 SLAPS BBQ 179.4400
2 PELLET ENVY 178.8800
3 BIG WOODIE BBQ 176.0000
4 MAN VS QUE 172.0000
5 TRUE SMOKE BBQ 171.4172
6 BIG WIGS BBQ 170.8228
7 Fairlane 165.1316
8 FOUR MEN AND A PIG 165.0972
9 A GOOD RUB BBQ 164.5372
10 HOT WACHULA'S 162.8456
11 BELLY DOWN BBQ 157.0972
12 MILLER'S BARNYARD BARBEQUE 156.5600
13 B TEAM BBQ MO 153.1200
14 NICKLE BOYS BBQ 152.5488
15 Not B Team 151.9772
16 SWEET & SASSY 149.6572
17 Smokin Slow BBQ 148.5028
18 DOUBLE D 147.9428
19 PORK STARS 141.0744

Ancillary categories

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.

Master Series — Dessert

7 entries · top 180.0000 · median 173.1428 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 SWEET & SASSY 180.0000 🔥
2 FOUR MEN AND A PIG 177.1428
3 BELLY DOWN BBQ 174.8572
4 B TEAM BBQ MO 173.1428
5 MILLER'S BARNYARD BARBEQUE 164.5372
6 Smokin Slow BBQ 159.9428
7 Not B Team 145.0856

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