2015-10-30 – 2015-10-31 · Rehobeth Beach, DE · 📍 Rehobeth Beach, DE 19971
Grand Champion: FINN'S FINEST BBQ (664.4916) · 59 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 BIG UGLY'S BBQ - MD
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 96% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.0688 points — closer than 96% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 74 times in 100
FINN'S FINEST BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 26-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
FINN'S FINEST BBQ won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 2 calls from 4 boards, best of them 4th. Consistency beat fireworks.
This was FINN'S FINEST BBQ's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 27th tracked contest.
First to fifth in the overall standings covered just 2.2404 points — 2 teams sat within a single point of the lead.
Chicken places 6–7: LIFE IS GOOD BUT BBQ IS BETTER and SERIAL GRILLER tied on 168.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 9–10: UNCLE PIG'S BARBEQUE PIT and 4:20 Q tied on 167.9656 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 8–9: BIG UGLY'S BBQ - MD edged PIGGIN' WHISKEY by 0.0112.
Bigger than 92% of the 5,410 contests in the data
59 teams made this a bigger field than 92% of every contest tracked.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 174.2628 | 169.1656 | 167.9656 |
| Pork Ribs | 173.1428 | 166.8800 | 165.1428 |
| Pork | 170.8684 | 168.5484 | 165.7028 |
| Brisket | 178.8800 | 171.4400 | 170.2972 |
59 entries · top 664.4916 · median 633.0056
57 entries · top 174.2628 · median 161.6800
59 entries · top 173.1428 · median 159.4400
59 entries · top 170.8684 · median 157.1772
59 entries · top 178.8800 · median 156.0000
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.
6 entries · top 165.1200 · median 162.8400
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | TRIBAL SMOKERS | |
| 2 | CHOCK FULL OF BARBEQUE | |
| 3 | PULLING ON MY PORK BBQ TEAM | |
| 4 | PORK DAWGS | |
| 5 | MO'S PIT "Q | |
| 6 | Butchies Backyard bbq |
6 entries · top 328.5832 · median 318.5028
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CHOCK FULL OF BARBEQUE | |
| 2 | PULLING ON MY PORK BBQ TEAM | |
| 3 | TRIBAL SMOKERS | |
| 4 | PORK DAWGS | |
| 5 | MO'S PIT "Q | |
| 6 | Butchies Backyard bbq |
6 entries · top 164.0116 · median 157.6914
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CHOCK FULL OF BARBEQUE | |
| 2 | MO'S PIT "Q | |
| 3 | PULLING ON MY PORK BBQ TEAM | |
| 4 | PORK DAWGS | |
| 5 | TRIBAL SMOKERS | |
| 6 | Butchies Backyard bbq |