2016-05-06 – 2016-05-07 · Huntsville, AL · 📍 Huntsville, AL 35801
Grand Champion: WILD BUNCH BUTT BURNERS (701.6800) · 67 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Organizer Portal
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, 2014 to 2019 — 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.
Closer than 78% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 1.1888 points — closer than 78% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 77 times in 100
WILD BUNCH BUTT BURNERS came in rated below the field's top team, QUE'N STEW'N & BREW'N, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 23-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
This was WILD BUNCH BUTT BURNERS's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 43rd tracked contest.
3 of 6 tracked editions
SMOKE ME SILLY has won this contest 3 times across its 6 tracked editions.
Chicken places 3–4: Organizer Portal and QUE'N STEW'N & BREW'N tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 4–5: QUE'N STEW'N & BREW'N and THE SPECIALISTS tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 6–7: SWIGGIN PIG and BABY GOT FATBACK tied on 175.4056 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
WILD BUNCH BUTT BURNERS took the title on 3 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was chicken at 15th.
BAR-B-Q 101 turned in 177.7144 in pork ribs — past the 177.7028 that had stood across 2 earlier editions.
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: Pig Time BBQ (won 2014).
Bigger than 95% of the 5,410 contests in the data
67 teams made this a bigger field than 95% of every contest tracked.
This contest usually draws about 63 teams
67 teams is the deepest field this contest has drawn in the data, against a typical 63.
Records held by every edition of this contest put together, not just this one afternoon.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-02 | Huntsville, AL | Huntsville, AL 35801 | 62 | 702.2400 | Pig Time BBQ | Organizer Portal |
| 2015-05-01 | Huntsville, AL | Huntsville, AL 35801 | 63 | 701.6456 | SMOKE ME SILLY | SOUTH PORK |
| 2016-05-06 ← this one | Huntsville, AL | Huntsville, AL 35801 | 67 | 701.6800 | WILD BUNCH BUTT BURNERS | Organizer Portal |
| 2017-05-05 | Huntsville, AL | Church Street | 69 | 703.4404 | SMOKE ME SILLY | HOT COLE'S BBQ |
| 2018-05-04 | Huntsville, AL | Church Street | 61 | 703.9428 | SMOKE ME SILLY | THE SPECIALISTS |
| 2019-05-03 | Huntsville, AL | Church Street | 54 | 698.2284 | South Pork | Organizer Portal |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 179.4400 | 176.5600 | 174.2744 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.7144 | 175.4172 | 172.5600 |
| Pork | 176.5828 | 174.2628 | 172.5600 |
| Brisket | 178.8572 | 174.2628 | 172.5600 |
67 entries · top 701.6800 · median 654.6740
67 entries · top 179.4400 · median 167.9772
67 entries · top 177.7144 · median 162.8000
67 entries · top 176.5828 · median 165.0972
67 entries · top 178.8572 · median 163.9428
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.
73 entries · top 348.0116 · median 297.1316
73 entries · top 178.2972 · median 149.7600
72 entries · top 174.8800 · median 150.2914