2016-05-06 – 2016-05-07 · Dwight, IL · 📍 419 W Waupansie
Grand Champion: THE CHILLY WATER SMOKERS (691.3368) · 40 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 CAPTAIN RON'S BREW-N-QUE
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.
What it has taken to win here, 2015 to 2022 — this edition picked out.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 77 times in 100
THE CHILLY WATER SMOKERS came in rated below the field's top team, YELLOW RIVER BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 23-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
THE CHILLY WATER SMOKERS won here last time out too — 2 straight editions of this contest.
THE CHILLY WATER SMOKERS won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 4 calls from 4 boards, best of them 3rd. Consistency beat fireworks.
2 of 7 tracked editions
THE CHILLY WATER SMOKERS has won this contest 2 times across its 7 tracked editions.
Chicken places 8–9: ONE2BBQ and NUTTHIN BUT PORK tied on 170.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 6–7: IT'S 5 O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE and NUTTHIN BUT PORK tied on 172.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 5–6: MEATSMACK edged SMOKIN' WET BBQ by 0.0112.
ALL IN QUE turned in 177.7028 in chicken — past the 177.1544 that had stood across 1 earlier editions.
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: THE CHILLY WATER SMOKERS (won 2015).
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-01 | Dwight, IL | Dwight, IL 60420 | 40 | 702.8460 | THE CHILLY WATER SMOKERS | TRUCKY'S TRUE BLU BBQ'UE |
| 2016-05-06 ← this one | Dwight, IL | 419 W Waupansie | 40 | 691.3368 | THE CHILLY WATER SMOKERS | CAPTAIN RON'S BREW-N-QUE |
| 2017-05-05 | Dwight, IL | 419 W Waupansie | 29 | 691.9544 | ALL IN QUE | OKLAHOMA JOE'S SERIOUS QUE |
| 2018-05-04 | Dwight, IL | 419 W Waupansie | 38 | 694.2516 | BILLY RAY BBQ | CARROL LOU'S SMOKEHOUSE |
| 2019-05-03 | Dwight, IL | 419 W Waupansie | 33 | 693.6916 | Carrol Lou's Smokehouse | iBQ'n |
| 2021-05-01 | Dwight, IL | 132 E main St | 44 | 703.4172 | The BBQ Bus | BIG "E" BBQ |
| 2022-05-06 | Dwight, IL | 132 E main St | 33 | 702.8000 | Que U | THE REAL SMOKIN ACES |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 177.7028 | 171.4172 | 169.1200 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.1428 | 173.7256 | 171.9772 |
| Pork | 175.4628 | 173.1084 | 170.8228 |
| Brisket | 176.5600 | 170.2856 | 168.5372 |
40 entries · top 691.3368 · median 650.4856
39 entries · top 177.7028 · median 162.2628
40 entries · top 177.1428 · median 166.5658
39 entries · top 175.4628 · median 163.4628
40 entries · top 176.5600 · median 161.3884