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Smoke on the mountain/VA state BBQ championship 2016

Jul 15–16, 2016 · Galax, VA · 📍 Downtown city of Galax

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CHECKERED FLAG 500 BBQ
690.7540 · Master Series — Overall
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CONTAGIOUS Q
689.0628 · Master Series — Overall
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DRILLING & GRILLING
685.0628 · Master Series — Overall

CHECKERED FLAG 500 BBQ won Grand Champion at the Smoke on the mountain/VA state BBQ championship on July 15, 2016 in Galax, VA at Downtown city of Galax, scoring 690.7540 in a field of 25 teams. CONTAGIOUS Q took Reserve Grand Champion with 689.0628. Category winners: Chicken — HICKORY BARBEQUE COMPANY (176.5600); Pork Ribs — King's Cooking (177.7144); Pork — BOOTYQUE (177.7028); Brisket — HICKORY BARBEQUE COMPANY (179.4400). This is the 2nd of 2 editions of this contest on record; the 2015 edition was won by Q-BONES BBQ.

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 176.56
  • Pork Ribs 177.71
  • Pork 177.70
  • Brisket 179.44
128.50 179.44

Entries

25
4 judged meats

Top score

690.7540

Winning margin

1.6912
GC over RC

Field average

652.96
577.52690.75
median 657.55 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

0

Tightest race

Pork Ribs
3.4400 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

667.3372
577.52690.75
10th place overall

Field spread

113.2340
winner to last place

Most consistent

CONTAGIOUS Q
avg finish 4.75 across 4 meats

Double threats

6
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Pork
won by 4.5944 pts — BOOTYQUE

How hot was the win?

Top 69%
beats 31% of 4723 Master Series wins in the data

Came back for more

28%
8 of 29 teams from the previous edition returned

Form held

Moderate
ρ = -0.57 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1,548
avg power rating going in · stronger than 36% of contests

Top-rated in the field

CHECKERED FLAG 500 BBQ
rated 1798 pre-contest

Storylines (4 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.

Won without a category win

4 of 4 meats called to the stage

CHECKERED FLAG 500 BBQ won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 4 calls from 4 boards, best of them 3rd. Consistency beat fireworks.

  • Chicken 3rd
  • Pork Ribs 8th
  • Pork 3rd
  • Brisket 7th

Photo finishes

Tie closest of 8 calls decided inside half a point

Chicken places 7–8: DRILLING & GRILLING and SMOKIN NC tied on 169.6800 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 2–3: MIDNIGHT BURN and CONTAGIOUS Q tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 5–6: BIG UGLY'S BBQ - MD and SMOKIN NC tied on 174.2744 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.

  • Chicken 7–8 · tie
  • Pork Ribs 2–3 · tie
  • Pork Ribs 5–6 · tie
  • Pork 3–4 · tie

A double category winner

2 category wins in a day

HICKORY BARBEQUE COMPANY won Chicken, Brisket — a double.

  • Chicken 1st
  • Brisket 1st

A contest record in pork ribs

177.7144 best pork ribs ever cooked here

King's Cooking turned in 177.7144 in pork ribs — past the 173.7144 that had stood across 1 earlier editions.

  • old best 173.7144
  • across 1 past editions

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
Jul 17, 2015 Galax, VA Galax, VA 24333 29 701.6456 Q-BONES BBQ VICTORY LANE BBQ
Jul 15, 2016 ← this one Galax, VA Downtown city of Galax 25 690.7540 CHECKERED FLAG 500 BBQ CONTAGIOUS Q

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

Category1st5th10th
Chicken176.5600170.2744168.5256
Pork Ribs177.7144174.2744169.7028
Pork177.7028170.8228165.6800
Brisket179.4400172.5484167.3712

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

25 entries · top 690.7540 · median 657.5540

#TeamScore
1 CHECKERED FLAG 500 BBQ 690.7540
2 CONTAGIOUS Q 689.0628
3 DRILLING & GRILLING 685.0628
4 BOOTYQUE 684.4912
5 MIDNIGHT BURN 682.7428
6 HICKORY BARBEQUE COMPANY 681.6112
7 SMOKIN NC 677.5884
8 BIG UGLY'S BBQ - MD 671.8512
9 Too Sauced... 668.4912
10 King's Cooking 667.3372
11 STILL WORKIN' ON IT BBQ 667.3032
12 APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN SMOKERS 662.1484
13 CREEKSIDE SMOKERS NC 657.5540
14 SWEET N SASSY BBQ COMPANY 657.5312
15 SLAYTON'S BARBEQUE COMPANY 654.0684
16 Bare Bones BBQ 649.0284
17 BANJOMAN'S BBQ 648.4112
18 BBQTREAT.COM 641.5656
19 FIREHOUSE BAR-B-QUE 634.1144
20 Mountain Grillas 625.5656
21 Fast Eddie's Lo & Slo BBQ 619.3600
22 SKIN AND BONES BBQ 618.7656
23 Nervous Wreck Cooking Crew 615.7596
24 151 Bar-B-Q 596.3540
25 Que-25 577.5200

Chicken

25 entries · top 176.5600 · median 165.0856

#TeamScore
1 HICKORY BARBEQUE COMPANY 176.5600
2 STILL WORKIN' ON IT BBQ 174.2744
3 CHECKERED FLAG 500 BBQ 174.2628
4 SWEET N SASSY BBQ COMPANY 170.8228
5 CONTAGIOUS Q 170.2744
6 BANJOMAN'S BBQ 170.2628
7 DRILLING & GRILLING 169.6800
8 SMOKIN NC 169.6800
9 BOOTYQUE 169.6684
10 Too Sauced... 168.5256
11 King's Cooking 165.1544
12 FIREHOUSE BAR-B-QUE 165.1084
13 CREEKSIDE SMOKERS NC 165.0856
14 MIDNIGHT BURN 163.3828
15 APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN SMOKERS 161.6916
16 SLAYTON'S BARBEQUE COMPANY 161.6572
17 Que-25 161.0740
18 Mountain Grillas 160.5372
19 Fast Eddie's Lo & Slo BBQ 159.4400
20 BBQTREAT.COM 159.3712
21 Bare Bones BBQ 159.3600
22 Nervous Wreck Cooking Crew 158.2284
23 SKIN AND BONES BBQ 154.8456
24 BIG UGLY'S BBQ - MD 154.7656
25 151 Bar-B-Q 145.6340

Pork Ribs

25 entries · top 177.7144 · median 166.8228

#TeamScore
1 King's Cooking 177.7144
2 MIDNIGHT BURN 176.5600
3 CONTAGIOUS Q 176.5600
4 Too Sauced... 174.8916
5 BIG UGLY'S BBQ - MD 174.2744
6 SMOKIN NC 174.2744
7 DRILLING & GRILLING 173.1200
8 CHECKERED FLAG 500 BBQ 172.5600
9 APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN SMOKERS 171.4056
10 CREEKSIDE SMOKERS NC 169.7028
11 SLAYTON'S BARBEQUE COMPANY 168.5256
12 SKIN AND BONES BBQ 166.8684
13 STILL WORKIN' ON IT BBQ 166.8228
14 BOOTYQUE 164.0116
15 Nervous Wreck Cooking Crew 161.6800
16 FIREHOUSE BAR-B-QUE 160.5144
17 Mountain Grillas 159.9540
18 Fast Eddie's Lo & Slo BBQ 159.4172
19 Bare Bones BBQ 158.8572
20 BANJOMAN'S BBQ 155.9200
21 151 Bar-B-Q 153.6800
22 HICKORY BARBEQUE COMPANY 153.6456
23 SWEET N SASSY BBQ COMPANY 150.8116
24 Que-25 149.0856
25 BBQTREAT.COM 146.8344

Pork

25 entries · top 177.7028 · median 163.3712

#TeamScore
1 BOOTYQUE 177.7028
2 BBQTREAT.COM 173.1084
3 CHECKERED FLAG 500 BBQ 171.9656
4 HICKORY BARBEQUE COMPANY 171.9656
5 DRILLING & GRILLING 170.8228
6 BIG UGLY'S BBQ - MD 170.2628
7 SWEET N SASSY BBQ COMPANY 169.6684
8 CONTAGIOUS Q 167.9656
9 STILL WORKIN' ON IT BBQ 166.8228
10 SLAYTON'S BARBEQUE COMPANY 165.6800
11 MIDNIGHT BURN 163.9428
12 CREEKSIDE SMOKERS NC 163.9312
13 SMOKIN NC 163.3712
14 King's Cooking 162.2400
15 APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN SMOKERS 161.6800
16 151 Bar-B-Q 161.1084
17 Too Sauced... 160.5256
18 BANJOMAN'S BBQ 158.8228
19 Bare Bones BBQ 158.8112
20 Mountain Grillas 155.4056
21 FIREHOUSE BAR-B-QUE 154.8116
22 Nervous Wreck Cooking Crew 154.2284
23 Fast Eddie's Lo & Slo BBQ 150.2628
24 SKIN AND BONES BBQ 145.0744
25 Que-25 138.8572

Brisket

25 entries · top 179.4400 · median 163.4056

#TeamScore
1 HICKORY BARBEQUE COMPANY 179.4400
2 MIDNIGHT BURN 178.8572
3 CONTAGIOUS Q 174.2628
4 BOOTYQUE 173.1084
5 BIG UGLY'S BBQ - MD 172.5484
6 Bare Bones BBQ 172
7 CHECKERED FLAG 500 BBQ 171.9656
8 DRILLING & GRILLING 171.4400
9 SMOKIN NC 170.2628
10 APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN SMOKERS 167.3712
11 SWEET N SASSY BBQ COMPANY 166.2284
12 Too Sauced... 164.5484
13 BANJOMAN'S BBQ 163.4056
14 BBQTREAT.COM 162.2516
15 King's Cooking 162.2284
16 STILL WORKIN' ON IT BBQ 159.3832
17 CREEKSIDE SMOKERS NC 158.8344
18 SLAYTON'S BARBEQUE COMPANY 158.2056
19 FIREHOUSE BAR-B-QUE 153.6800
20 SKIN AND BONES BBQ 151.9772
21 Fast Eddie's Lo & Slo BBQ 150.2400
22 Mountain Grillas 149.6688
23 Nervous Wreck Cooking Crew 141.6228
24 151 Bar-B-Q 135.9316
25 Que-25 128.5032

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