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King of the Smoker Invitational (JUDGES FULL)

📊 Doesn’t count toward power ratings — Invitational — an invite-only field, so it does not feed the rating. The results below are real and still count toward every team’s record.

2015-12-11 – 2015-12-12 · La Quinta, CA · 📍 La Quinta, CA

Grand Champion: LITTLE PIG TOWN BBQ (706.8460) · 24 teams

Reserve Champion: 🥈 JO-BAWB'S BBQ

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LITTLE PIG TOWN BBQ
706.8460 · Master Series — Overall
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JO-BAWB'S BBQ
703.4404 · Master Series — Overall
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Organizer Portal
698.7996 · 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 179.44
  • Pork Ribs 177.14
  • Pork 179.44
  • Brisket 176.57
153.13 179.44

Entries

24
4 judged meats

Top score

706.8460

Winning margin

3.4056
GC over RC

Field average

688.86
667.97706.85
median 688.82 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

0

Tightest race

Chicken
0.5828 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

689.6228
667.97706.85
10th place overall

Field spread

38.8800
winner to last place

Most consistent

LITTLE PIG TOWN BBQ
avg finish 4.75 across 4 meats

Double threats

4
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Pork
won by 0.5600 pts — LITTLE PIG TOWN BBQ

How hot was the win?

Top 9%
beats 91% of 4707 Master Series wins in the data

Storylines (3 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.

Photo finishes

Tie closest of 18 calls decided inside half a point

Chicken places 1–2: Organizer Portal and GETTIN' BASTED tied on 179.4400 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 3–4: LITTLE PIG TOWN BBQ and JAMBO PITS tied on 178.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 4–5: JAMBO PITS and IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ tied on 178.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.

  • Chicken 1–2 · tie
  • Chicken 3–4 · tie
  • Chicken 4–5 · tie
  • Chicken 5–6 · tie

A double category winner

2 category wins in a day

Organizer Portal won Chicken, Pork Ribs — a double.

  • Chicken 1st
  • Pork Ribs 1st

How the title was won

3 of 4 meats called to the stage

LITTLE PIG TOWN BBQ took the title on 3 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was pork ribs at 14th.

  • Chicken 3rd
  • Pork Ribs 14th
  • Pork 1st
  • Brisket 1st

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)

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

Category1st5th10th
Chicken179.4400178.8572175.4172
Pork Ribs177.1428175.4288173.1200
Pork179.4400177.1544175.4056
Brisket176.5716174.2744173.1084

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

24 entries · top 706.8460 · median 688.8170

#TeamScore
1 LITTLE PIG TOWN BBQ 706.8460
2 JO-BAWB'S BBQ 703.4404
3 Organizer Portal 698.7996
4 IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ 698.2404
5 JAMBO PITS 696.5260
6 COOL SMOKE 695.3940
7 PIGSKIN BBQ 692.5028
8 WARREN COUNTY PORK CHOPPERS 691.4284
9 GETTIN' BASTED 690.8000
10 SMOKEAHOLICS 689.6228
11 SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ 689.0856
12 TIM'S FULL BELLI DELI 689.0396
13 SPITFIRE 688.5944
14 BUFFALO'S BBQ 687.3944
15 YELLOW RIVER BBQ 686.8112
16 BIG T'Z Q CRU 686.7772
17 Big Bob Gibson BBQ 686.2400
18 THE AMERICAN DREAM BBQ 685.0856
19 GRILLS GONE WILD IOWA 683.9088
20 BLAZEN BBQ 682.3088
21 SIMPLY MARVELOUS BBQ 681.0972
22 CLARK CREW BBQ 677.6576
23 3 EYZ BBQ 677.0516
24 SMOKIN TRIGGERS 667.9660

Chicken

24 entries · top 179.4400 · median 173.1258

#TeamScore
1 Organizer Portal 179.4400
2 GETTIN' BASTED 179.4400
3 LITTLE PIG TOWN BBQ 178.8572
4 JAMBO PITS 178.8572
5 IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ 178.8572
6 JO-BAWB'S BBQ 178.8572
7 SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ 177.1428
8 BLAZEN BBQ 176.5944
9 BUFFALO'S BBQ 176.0228
10 WARREN COUNTY PORK CHOPPERS 175.4172
11 SPITFIRE 173.7372
12 CLARK CREW BBQ 173.1316
13 SMOKIN TRIGGERS 173.1200
14 3 EYZ BBQ 173.1084
15 PIGSKIN BBQ 173.1084
16 Big Bob Gibson BBQ 172.5828
17 THE AMERICAN DREAM BBQ 172.5600
18 YELLOW RIVER BBQ 172.5484
19 COOL SMOKE 171.9884
20 TIM'S FULL BELLI DELI 171.9656
21 BIG T'Z Q CRU 170.8228
22 GRILLS GONE WILD IOWA 168.5372
23 SIMPLY MARVELOUS BBQ 166.8228
24 SMOKEAHOLICS 165.0856

Pork Ribs

24 entries · top 177.1428 · median 172.2686

#TeamScore
1 Organizer Portal 177.1428
2 SPITFIRE 176.5944
3 SIMPLY MARVELOUS BBQ 176.0116
4 JO-BAWB'S BBQ 176.0116
5 Big Bob Gibson BBQ 175.4288
6 SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ 175.4056
7 COOL SMOKE 174.2856
8 SMOKIN TRIGGERS 173.1772
9 GETTIN' BASTED 173.1200
10 SMOKEAHOLICS 173.1200
11 WARREN COUNTY PORK CHOPPERS 172.5828
12 PIGSKIN BBQ 172.5600
13 GRILLS GONE WILD IOWA 171.9772
14 LITTLE PIG TOWN BBQ 171.9772
15 TIM'S FULL BELLI DELI 171.4056
16 BIG T'Z Q CRU 169.7144
17 BUFFALO'S BBQ 169.6800
18 3 EYZ BBQ 169.1200
19 BLAZEN BBQ 168.5600
20 THE AMERICAN DREAM BBQ 168.5600
21 YELLOW RIVER BBQ 167.9772
22 JAMBO PITS 167.3944
23 IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ 166.2516
24 CLARK CREW BBQ 161.1316

Pork

24 entries · top 179.4400 · median 173.7028

#TeamScore
1 LITTLE PIG TOWN BBQ 179.4400
2 WARREN COUNTY PORK CHOPPERS 178.8800
3 IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ 178.8572
4 PIGSKIN BBQ 177.1544
5 SMOKEAHOLICS 177.1544
6 JO-BAWB'S BBQ 176.0116
7 SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ 176.0000
8 JAMBO PITS 175.4172
9 COOL SMOKE 175.4172
10 YELLOW RIVER BBQ 175.4056
11 THE AMERICAN DREAM BBQ 174.2972
12 TIM'S FULL BELLI DELI 173.7028
13 CLARK CREW BBQ 173.7028
14 3 EYZ BBQ 172.5716
15 Big Bob Gibson BBQ 172.0000
16 SPITFIRE 170.8572
17 GETTIN' BASTED 170.8456
18 BIG T'Z Q CRU 169.6800
19 Organizer Portal 169.1084
20 BUFFALO'S BBQ 168.5372
21 SMOKIN TRIGGERS 168.5372
22 GRILLS GONE WILD IOWA 168.5372
23 BLAZEN BBQ 165.1428
24 SIMPLY MARVELOUS BBQ 164.0000

Brisket

24 entries · top 176.5716 · median 171.9886

#TeamScore
1 LITTLE PIG TOWN BBQ 176.5716
2 BIG T'Z Q CRU 176.5600
3 JAMBO PITS 174.8572
4 GRILLS GONE WILD IOWA 174.8572
5 IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ 174.2744
6 SMOKEAHOLICS 174.2628
7 SIMPLY MARVELOUS BBQ 174.2628
8 COOL SMOKE 173.7028
9 BUFFALO'S BBQ 173.1544
10 Organizer Portal 173.1084
11 JO-BAWB'S BBQ 172.5600
12 BLAZEN BBQ 172.0116
13 TIM'S FULL BELLI DELI 171.9656
14 YELLOW RIVER BBQ 170.8800
15 CLARK CREW BBQ 169.6916
16 PIGSKIN BBQ 169.6800
17 THE AMERICAN DREAM BBQ 169.6684
18 SPITFIRE 167.4056
19 GETTIN' BASTED 167.3944
20 Big Bob Gibson BBQ 166.2284
21 WARREN COUNTY PORK CHOPPERS 164.5484
22 3 EYZ BBQ 162.2516
23 SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ 160.5372
24 SMOKIN TRIGGERS 153.1316

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