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Murphysboro Barbecue Cook-Off

2015-09-25 – 2015-09-26 · Murphysboro, IL · 📍 Murphysboro, IL 62966

Grand Champion: GILLY'S BBQ (693.1204) · 55 teams

Reserve Champion: 🥈 Q-BONES BBQ

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GILLY'S BBQ
693.1204 · Master Series — Overall
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Q-BONES BBQ
692.5600 · Master Series — Overall
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IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ
692.4568 · 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 178.30
  • Pork Ribs 178.86
  • Pork 175.41
  • Brisket 177.70
107.15 178.86

Winning score by edition

What it has taken to win here, 2013 to 2015 — this edition picked out.

2013-09-19 — 699.9428 (TRUEBUD BBQ) 2014-09-18 — 703.9888 (IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ) 2015-09-25 — 693.1204 (GILLY'S BBQ) 693.12 2013 2015

Entries

55
4 judged meats

Top score

693.1204

Winning margin

0.5604
GC over RC

Field average

654.66
574.58693.12
median 658.15 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

0

Tightest race

Pork
1.6800 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

680.0348
574.58693.12
10th place overall

Field spread

118.5376
winner to last place

Most consistent

Q-BONES BBQ
avg finish 7.00 across 4 meats

Double threats

4
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Brisket
won by 2.2972 pts — QUAU

How hot was the win?

Top 60%
beats 40% of 4707 Master Series wins in the data

Came back for more

58%
33 of 57 teams from the previous edition returned

Form held

Strong
ρ = -0.77 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1567
avg power rating going in · stronger than 52% of contests

Top-rated in the field

IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ
rated 1959 pre-contest

Storylines (7 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

0.5604 points between champion and reserve

Closer than 91% of the 4,742 championships in the data

The Grand Championship was decided by 0.5604 points — closer than 91% of every championship in the data.

  • GILLY'S BBQ
  • Q-BONES BBQ

An upset on the books

26-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings

The ratings favoured the top seed the other 74 times in 100

GILLY'S BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 26-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.

  • champion 1778
  • top seed 1959

Won without a category win

3 of 4 meats called to the stage

GILLY'S BBQ won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 3 calls from 4 boards, best of them 3rd. Consistency beat fireworks.

  • Chicken 11th
  • Pork Ribs 10th
  • Pork 3rd
  • Brisket 5th

A knife fight at the top

4.5948 points across the top five

First to fifth in the overall standings covered just 4.5948 points — 3 teams sat within a single point of the lead.

  • 1st GILLY'S BBQ
  • 2nd Q-BONES BBQ
  • 3rd IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ
  • 4th VICTORY LANE BBQ
  • 5th QUAU

Photo finishes

Tie closest of 13 calls decided inside half a point

Chicken places 1–2: Posey County Cookers and FOWL BUTT BBQ tied on 178.2972 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 6–7: F.B.I. BBQ - FAT BOYS OF ILLINOIS and ONE2BBQ tied on 174.2744 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 8–9: YELLOW RIVER BBQ and QUAU tied on 172.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.

  • Chicken 1–2 · tie
  • Pork Ribs 6–7 · tie
  • Pork 8–9 · tie
  • Pork Ribs 9–10 · 0.0112

Back to defend

1 past champions back in the field

Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ (won 2014).

  • IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ · 2014

One of the big ones

55 teams on the grounds

Bigger than 90% of the 5,410 contests in the data

55 teams made this a bigger field than 90% of every contest tracked.

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
2013-09-19 Murphysboro, IL Murphysboro, IL 76 699.9428 TRUEBUD BBQ KILLER HOGS
2014-09-18 Murphysboro, IL Murphysboro, IL 62966 57 703.9888 IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ ONE2BBQ
2015-09-25 ← this one Murphysboro, IL Murphysboro, IL 62966 55 693.1204 GILLY'S BBQ Q-BONES BBQ

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

Category1st5th10th
Chicken178.2972174.8456173.1084
Pork Ribs178.8572174.3316173.1316
Pork175.4056173.7256172.0228
Brisket177.7028173.7144171.4056

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

55 entries · top 693.1204 · median 658.1484

#TeamScore
1 GILLY'S BBQ 693.1204
2 Q-BONES BBQ 692.5600
3 IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ 692.4568
4 VICTORY LANE BBQ 690.1824
5 QUAU 688.5256
6 A BOY & HIS BBQ 687.9776
7 BACKDRAFT BBQ 685.0856
8 270 SMOKERS 681.7372
9 YELLOW RIVER BBQ 681.0624
10 Uncle Kenny's Take-Away 680.0348
11 ONE2BBQ 678.8112
12 Posey County Cookers 677.6576
13 F.B.I. BBQ - FAT BOYS OF ILLINOIS 677.0860
14 Big O' Dang O' BBQ 675.4056
15 THUNDER HOG BBQ 675.3832
16 ALL IN QUE 674.2400
17 FOWL BUTT BBQ 674.1940
18 BULL RUSH BBQ 673.6456
19 HICKORY PIT STOP 672.5028
20 ST. LOUIS BLACK IRON BBQ 669.6456
21 SEXY Q/17TH ST BAR & GRILL 667.9656
22 PORK PARADISE 666.8116
23 BOSS HAWG BBQ 665.1772
24 PITMASTERIQ BBQ 665.0284
25 SMOKIN' SAUCED 665.0168
26 RJ'S BOW TIE BARBECUE 663.2800
27 WILD BOAR SMOKERS 661.0056
28 THE BBQ SHERPAS 658.1484
29 TR's Up In Smoke 656.4800
30 LEGENDS OF SMOKE - TEAM RED ARROW 655.2684
31 IT'S 5 O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE 654.1600
32 TOO BIG TO FAIL BBQ 652.5144
33 THE PORK WHISPERERS 651.8744
34 HIGH ON THE HOG CATLIN, IL 650.1488
35 CARBONDALE PORK DISTRICT 648.5824
36 MOE CASON BBQ 648.5256
37 TWO BUTTS AND A HAM 647.3028
38 KCBEER'S SMOKE SHACK 642.1488
39 WRIGHT ON QUE-IL 641.5204
40 SMOKI BROS. BBQ 639.8856
41 MIDWEST JUNCTION BBQ 636.9944
42 Dewey Smoke'm & Howe 633.6000
43 RUB IT, SMOKE IT, LOVE IT 630.7200
44 Wild Irish Q 627.8968
45 PHATSO'S BBQ 626.7888
46 PINE HILLS BBQ 622.2284
47 NUTHATCH HILL BBQ CO. 622.0688
48 PARTY Q 621.5540
49 Piggy Q 620.9024
50 Choke Em & Smoke Em 619.9200
51 Mispits 616.4344
52 SMOKIN ALL UR BUTTS BBQ 614.1940
53 SIDEBURN BBQ CREW 610.6624
54 Uncle Bones BBQ 605.5656
55 Ninja Pigs 574.5828

Chicken

55 entries · top 178.2972 · median 167.3828

#TeamScore
1 Posey County Cookers 178.2972
2 FOWL BUTT BBQ 178.2972
3 A BOY & HIS BBQ 176.5600
4 Uncle Kenny's Take-Away 175.4172
5 VICTORY LANE BBQ 174.8456
6 QUAU 174.2856
7 IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ 174.2628
8 270 SMOKERS 173.7144
9 BOSS HAWG BBQ 173.7028
10 F.B.I. BBQ - FAT BOYS OF ILLINOIS 173.1084
11 GILLY'S BBQ 172.0116
12 Q-BONES BBQ 171.9772
13 ALL IN QUE 171.9656
14 SMOKI BROS. BBQ 171.4284
15 ST. LOUIS BLACK IRON BBQ 171.4172
16 BACKDRAFT BBQ 171.4056
17 SEXY Q/17TH ST BAR & GRILL 171.4056
18 YELLOW RIVER BBQ 171.4056
19 NUTHATCH HILL BBQ CO. 170.8572
20 RJ'S BOW TIE BARBECUE 170.8228
21 Big O' Dang O' BBQ 170.2628
22 PITMASTERIQ BBQ 169.6800
23 THE BBQ SHERPAS 169.1084
24 SMOKIN' SAUCED 168.5600
25 HICKORY PIT STOP 168.5372
26 THUNDER HOG BBQ 168.0000
27 WRIGHT ON QUE-IL 167.3944
28 THE PORK WHISPERERS 167.3828
29 WILD BOAR SMOKERS 165.6800
30 HIGH ON THE HOG CATLIN, IL 165.6800
31 RUB IT, SMOKE IT, LOVE IT 165.6684
32 Ninja Pigs 165.1656
33 TR's Up In Smoke 165.0856
34 ONE2BBQ 163.9656
35 SMOKIN ALL UR BUTTS BBQ 163.4284
36 IT'S 5 O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE 162.8572
37 PORK PARADISE 162.8572
38 MIDWEST JUNCTION BBQ 162.8228
39 MOE CASON BBQ 162.2972
40 PINE HILLS BBQ 162.2856
41 LEGENDS OF SMOKE - TEAM RED ARROW 162.2400
42 CARBONDALE PORK DISTRICT 161.7256
43 BULL RUSH BBQ 161.6800
44 SIDEBURN BBQ CREW 161.1084
45 Dewey Smoke'm & Howe 159.4400
46 TWO BUTTS AND A HAM 158.8000
47 Piggy Q 158.7884
48 TOO BIG TO FAIL BBQ 157.7372
49 Wild Irish Q 154.8000
50 PARTY Q 154.2400
51 KCBEER'S SMOKE SHACK 153.0856
52 PHATSO'S BBQ 151.9428
53 Mispits 146.8000
54 Uncle Bones BBQ 143.9428
55 Choke Em & Smoke Em 142.2400

Pork Ribs

55 entries · top 178.8572 · median 165.1316

#TeamScore
1 IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ 178.8572
2 WILD BOAR SMOKERS 176.5828
3 KCBEER'S SMOKE SHACK 175.4172
4 Q-BONES BBQ 174.8572
5 Big O' Dang O' BBQ 174.3316
6 F.B.I. BBQ - FAT BOYS OF ILLINOIS 174.2744
7 ONE2BBQ 174.2744
8 A BOY & HIS BBQ 173.7260
9 CARBONDALE PORK DISTRICT 173.1428
10 GILLY'S BBQ 173.1316
11 270 SMOKERS 170.8572
12 SMOKIN' SAUCED 170.8228
13 SEXY Q/17TH ST BAR & GRILL 169.1888
14 ALL IN QUE 169.1544
15 PITMASTERIQ BBQ 169.1428
16 HICKORY PIT STOP 169.1428
17 THUNDER HOG BBQ 168.5488
18 VICTORY LANE BBQ 168.5256
19 PORK PARADISE 168.0000
20 BULL RUSH BBQ 167.9772
21 Wild Irish Q 167.4400
22 Mispits 166.8572
23 Posey County Cookers 166.8460
24 YELLOW RIVER BBQ 166.2856
25 BOSS HAWG BBQ 166.2744
26 IT'S 5 O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE 165.6916
27 LEGENDS OF SMOKE - TEAM RED ARROW 165.6800
28 PHATSO'S BBQ 165.1316
29 Uncle Kenny's Take-Away 163.9888
30 BACKDRAFT BBQ 163.9772
31 QUAU 163.9772
32 WRIGHT ON QUE-IL 162.8116
33 FOWL BUTT BBQ 162.2400
34 TR's Up In Smoke 161.1200
35 SIDEBURN BBQ CREW 159.9656
36 HIGH ON THE HOG CATLIN, IL 159.3600
37 TOO BIG TO FAIL BBQ 158.2056
38 MIDWEST JUNCTION BBQ 157.6688
39 THE BBQ SHERPAS 157.6684
40 ST. LOUIS BLACK IRON BBQ 156.5600
41 RJ'S BOW TIE BARBECUE 155.9544
42 TWO BUTTS AND A HAM 154.8228
43 Dewey Smoke'm & Howe 153.6800
44 Piggy Q 153.0972
45 Choke Em & Smoke Em 152.5712
46 MOE CASON BBQ 151.9428
47 PINE HILLS BBQ 151.3940
48 NUTHATCH HILL BBQ CO. 150.2056
49 Ninja Pigs 148.5600
50 THE PORK WHISPERERS 146.8116
51 RUB IT, SMOKE IT, LOVE IT 146.8116
52 Uncle Bones BBQ 146.8000
53 SMOKI BROS. BBQ 145.0744
54 PARTY Q 143.9200
55 SMOKIN ALL UR BUTTS BBQ 143.4172

Pork

55 entries · top 175.4056 · median 165.1200

#TeamScore
1 VICTORY LANE BBQ 175.4056
2 BACKDRAFT BBQ 174.2972
3 GILLY'S BBQ 174.2628
4 270 SMOKERS 173.7600
5 Q-BONES BBQ 173.7256
6 HICKORY PIT STOP 173.1200
7 FOWL BUTT BBQ 173.1084
8 YELLOW RIVER BBQ 172.5600
9 QUAU 172.5600
10 ONE2BBQ 172.0228
11 IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ 171.9656
12 ST. LOUIS BLACK IRON BBQ 171.9656
13 TR's Up In Smoke 171.4400
14 THE PORK WHISPERERS 171.4056
15 MIDWEST JUNCTION BBQ 171.4056
16 HIGH ON THE HOG CATLIN, IL 170.8572
17 Uncle Kenny's Take-Away 170.3200
18 MOE CASON BBQ 170.2856
19 PORK PARADISE 170.2744
20 BULL RUSH BBQ 169.6912
21 Big O' Dang O' BBQ 169.1200
22 THUNDER HOG BBQ 169.1200
23 PARTY Q 168.5484
24 A BOY & HIS BBQ 167.4172
25 F.B.I. BBQ - FAT BOYS OF ILLINOIS 166.8916
26 BOSS HAWG BBQ 166.8572
27 ALL IN QUE 165.6800
28 Dewey Smoke'm & Howe 165.1200
29 SEXY Q/17TH ST BAR & GRILL 165.1200
30 RJ'S BOW TIE BARBECUE 164.5256
31 KCBEER'S SMOKE SHACK 163.9888
32 Choke Em & Smoke Em 163.9772
33 Posey County Cookers 163.9544
34 TOO BIG TO FAIL BBQ 162.8344
35 LEGENDS OF SMOKE - TEAM RED ARROW 162.8228
36 TWO BUTTS AND A HAM 162.2628
37 SMOKI BROS. BBQ 162.2628
38 Uncle Bones BBQ 161.7256
39 Piggy Q 161.6456
40 PINE HILLS BBQ 158.8572
41 THE BBQ SHERPAS 158.8000
42 IT'S 5 O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE 158.7884
43 SMOKIN' SAUCED 158.2284
44 SIDEBURN BBQ CREW 157.1084
45 WRIGHT ON QUE-IL 156.5372
46 PITMASTERIQ BBQ 155.9544
47 RUB IT, SMOKE IT, LOVE IT 155.3828
48 WILD BOAR SMOKERS 155.3600
49 Ninja Pigs 153.7028
50 SMOKIN ALL UR BUTTS BBQ 151.9656
51 Mispits 151.9544
52 PHATSO'S BBQ 150.8572
53 CARBONDALE PORK DISTRICT 149.6912
54 Wild Irish Q 149.0740
55 NUTHATCH HILL BBQ CO. 144.4916

Brisket

55 entries · top 177.7028 · median 163.4056

#TeamScore
1 QUAU 177.7028
2 BACKDRAFT BBQ 175.4056
3 BULL RUSH BBQ 174.2972
4 TOO BIG TO FAIL BBQ 173.7372
5 GILLY'S BBQ 173.7144
6 THE BBQ SHERPAS 172.5716
7 Q-BONES BBQ 172.0000
8 RJ'S BOW TIE BARBECUE 171.9772
9 TWO BUTTS AND A HAM 171.4172
10 VICTORY LANE BBQ 171.4056
11 YELLOW RIVER BBQ 170.8112
12 Uncle Kenny's Take-Away 170.3088
13 A BOY & HIS BBQ 170.2744
14 PITMASTERIQ BBQ 170.2512
15 THUNDER HOG BBQ 169.7144
16 ST. LOUIS BLACK IRON BBQ 169.7028
17 Posey County Cookers 168.5600
18 ONE2BBQ 168.5484
19 ALL IN QUE 167.4400
20 SMOKIN' SAUCED 167.4056
21 IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ 167.3712
22 IT'S 5 O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE 166.8228
23 THE PORK WHISPERERS 166.2744
24 PORK PARADISE 165.6800
25 LEGENDS OF SMOKE - TEAM RED ARROW 164.5256
26 CARBONDALE PORK DISTRICT 164.0228
27 MOE CASON BBQ 164.0000
28 270 SMOKERS 163.4056
29 WILD BOAR SMOKERS 163.3828
30 RUB IT, SMOKE IT, LOVE IT 162.8572
31 F.B.I. BBQ - FAT BOYS OF ILLINOIS 162.8116
32 SEXY Q/17TH ST BAR & GRILL 162.2512
33 HICKORY PIT STOP 161.7028
34 Big O' Dang O' BBQ 161.6912
35 Choke Em & Smoke Em 161.1316
36 SMOKI BROS. BBQ 161.1200
37 FOWL BUTT BBQ 160.5484
38 PHATSO'S BBQ 158.8572
39 TR's Up In Smoke 158.8344
40 BOSS HAWG BBQ 158.3428
41 Wild Irish Q 156.5828
42 NUTHATCH HILL BBQ CO. 156.5144
43 SMOKIN ALL UR BUTTS BBQ 155.3828
44 Dewey Smoke'm & Howe 155.3600
45 PARTY Q 154.8456
46 WRIGHT ON QUE-IL 154.7772
47 HIGH ON THE HOG CATLIN, IL 154.2516
48 Uncle Bones BBQ 153.0972
49 Mispits 150.8228
50 PINE HILLS BBQ 149.6916
51 KCBEER'S SMOKE SHACK 149.6572
52 Piggy Q 147.3712
53 MIDWEST JUNCTION BBQ 145.0972
54 SIDEBURN BBQ CREW 132.4800
55 Ninja Pigs 107.1544

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