2015-10-02 – 2015-10-03 · Dana Point, CA · 📍 Dana Point, CA 92629
Grand Champion: KNOCK UR SOX OFF BBQ (704.5600) · 75 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 LEFT COAST Q
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 90% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.5828 points — closer than 90% of every championship in the data.
KNOCK UR SOX OFF BBQ won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 4 calls from 4 boards, best of them 4th. Consistency beat fireworks.
3 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
Chicken places 1–2: LEFT COAST Q and NOTHING COMPARES 2 Q tied on 179.4400 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 3–4: G & Pop's BBQ and BURNIN AND LOOTIN tied on 177.7144 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 6–7: KNOCK UR SOX OFF BBQ and DG FIREHOUSE BBQ tied on 177.1428 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
LEFT COAST Q won Chicken, Pork — a double.
Bigger than 97% of the 5,410 contests in the data
75 teams made this a bigger field than 97% of every contest tracked.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 179.4400 | 177.1544 | 176.0344 |
| Pork Ribs | 179.4400 | 177.1544 | 174.2972 |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 176.5600 | 173.7256 |
| Brisket | 180.0000 | 176.5828 | 174.2628 |
75 entries · top 704.5600 · median 663.8628
74 entries · top 179.4400 · median 167.9828
74 entries · top 179.4400 · median 166.8400
74 entries · top 180.0000 · median 166.2628 · 🔥 perfect 180
73 entries · top 180.0000 · median 165.0856 · 🔥 perfect 180
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.
35 entries · top 180.0000 · median 171.4056 · 🔥 perfect 180