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Butler Chambers Barbeque & Huckster's Day

Sep 16–17, 2016 · Butler, MO · 📍 Main Street

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674.8344 · Master Series — Overall
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666.2168 · Master Series — Overall
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665.0056 · Master Series — Overall

Fergolicious BBQ won Grand Champion at the Butler Chambers Barbeque & Huckster's Day on September 16, 2016 in Butler, MO at Main Street, scoring 674.8344 in a field of 21 teams. R BUTTS R SMOKIN took Reserve Grand Champion with 666.2168. Category winners: Chicken — FIRESTORM (177.7372); Pork Ribs — Fergolicious BBQ (170.2628); Pork — MEL'S BBQ (174.2628); Brisket — Fergolicious BBQ (174.8572).

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 177.74
  • Pork Ribs 170.26
  • Pork 174.26
  • Brisket 174.86
132.50 177.74

Entries

21
4 judged meats · 1 ancillary

Top score

674.8344

Winning margin

8.6176
GC over RC

Field average

628.31
556.90674.83
median 636.55 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

0

Tightest race

Pork Ribs
6.8684 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

637.5772
556.90674.83
10th place overall

Field spread

117.9316
winner to last place

Most consistent

avg finish 3.75 across 4 meats

Double threats

5
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Brisket
won by 6.8916 pts — Fergolicious BBQ

How hot was the win?

Top 94%
beats 6% of 4715 Master Series wins in the data

Form held

Strong
ρ = -0.69 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1,538
avg power rating going in · stronger than 28% of contests

Top-rated in the field

rated 1808 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.

An upset on the books

32-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings

The ratings favoured the top seed the other 68 times in 100

Fergolicious BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, R BUTTS R SMOKIN, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 32-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.

  • champion 1679
  • top seed 1808

Photo finishes

Tie closest of 6 calls decided inside half a point

Chicken places 9–10: 913 BBQ and MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ tied on 160.5256 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 1–2: Fergolicious BBQ and KC SMOKE DAWGS tied on 170.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 2–3: 913 BBQ and SMOKIN ROYS tied on 167.9656 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.

  • Chicken 9–10 · tie
  • Pork Ribs 1–2 · tie
  • Brisket 2–3 · tie
  • Pork Ribs 8–9 · 0.0116

A double category winner

2 category wins in a day

Fergolicious BBQ won Pork Ribs, Brisket — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.

  • Pork Ribs 1st
  • Brisket 1st

How the title was won

4 of 4 meats called to the stage

Fergolicious BBQ took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was chicken at 7th.

  • Chicken 7th
  • Pork Ribs 1st
  • Pork 6th
  • 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)

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)

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

Category1st5th10th
Chicken177.7372166.8228160.5256
Pork Ribs170.2628163.3944158.2400
Pork174.2628165.0856160.5372
Brisket174.8572165.7028157.1428

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

21 entries · top 674.8344 · median 636.5484

#TeamScore
1 Fergolicious BBQ 674.8344
2 R BUTTS R SMOKIN 666.2168
3 913 BBQ 665.0056
4 SMOKIN ROYS 657.0856
5 D-DON'S PIT CREW 646.1828
6 BACKFIRIN' BBQ 645.0056
7 MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ 644.9712
8 FIRESTORM 638.1832
9 MAD HOGS AND AN ENGLISHMAN 638.1484
10 SMOKEVILLE 637.5772
11 MEL'S BBQ 636.5484
12 KC SMOKE DAWGS 633.5312
13 LIL' FIDDLER'S 631.2684
14 Big D's Smoking Pit 625.1204
15 DUNN UP BBQ 619.9196
16 WOOD HOOK BBQ 606.6744
17 Wild Hog BBQ 599.8284
18 TWO GUYS AND A SMOKER 597.0056
19 PARTS R SMOKIN 596.9368
20 We BBQ 577.5884
21 UNCLE BO'S BBQ 556.9028

Chicken

21 entries · top 177.7372 · median 158.8688

#TeamScore
1 FIRESTORM 177.7372
2 MAD HOGS AND AN ENGLISHMAN 173.7144
3 SMOKEVILLE 170.8344
4 R BUTTS R SMOKIN 167.9656
5 BACKFIRIN' BBQ 166.8228
6 Big D's Smoking Pit 166.2860
7 Fergolicious BBQ 165.1544
8 LIL' FIDDLER'S 162.8456
9 913 BBQ 160.5256
10 MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ 160.5256
11 SMOKIN ROYS 158.8688
12 D-DON'S PIT CREW 158.2400
13 PARTS R SMOKIN 156.5140
14 Wild Hog BBQ 152.5600
15 WOOD HOOK BBQ 150.8344
16 KC SMOKE DAWGS 149.6456
17 DUNN UP BBQ 149.1428
18 MEL'S BBQ 142.8456
19 TWO GUYS AND A SMOKER 141.0628
20 UNCLE BO'S BBQ 134.2284
21 We BBQ 132.5028

Pork Ribs

21 entries · top 170.2628 · median 157.7144

#TeamScore
1 Fergolicious BBQ 170.2628
2 KC SMOKE DAWGS 170.2628
3 SMOKIN ROYS 166.8112
4 R BUTTS R SMOKIN 164.5484
5 913 BBQ 163.3944
6 SMOKEVILLE 162.8344
7 TWO GUYS AND A SMOKER 161.1428
8 DUNN UP BBQ 158.8228
9 We BBQ 158.8112
10 WOOD HOOK BBQ 158.2400
11 D-DON'S PIT CREW 157.7144
12 BACKFIRIN' BBQ 157.6684
13 LIL' FIDDLER'S 156.5256
14 MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ 154.2172
15 MEL'S BBQ 153.7372
16 Wild Hog BBQ 153.6456
17 PARTS R SMOKIN 153.1544
18 UNCLE BO'S BBQ 148.5144
19 MAD HOGS AND AN ENGLISHMAN 147.9084
20 FIRESTORM 145.6572
21 Big D's Smoking Pit 142.8000

Pork

21 entries · top 174.2628 · median 160.5256

#TeamScore
1 MEL'S BBQ 174.2628
2 913 BBQ 173.1200
3 D-DON'S PIT CREW 166.8572
4 R BUTTS R SMOKIN 166.8228
5 MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ 165.0856
6 Fergolicious BBQ 164.5600
7 KC SMOKE DAWGS 164.5372
8 SMOKIN ROYS 163.4400
9 MAD HOGS AND AN ENGLISHMAN 161.1428
10 FIRESTORM 160.5372
11 LIL' FIDDLER'S 160.5256
12 SMOKEVILLE 159.4056
13 BACKFIRIN' BBQ 158.2172
14 Big D's Smoking Pit 157.7600
15 DUNN UP BBQ 154.8112
16 TWO GUYS AND A SMOKER 150.8456
17 Wild Hog BBQ 150.8228
18 WOOD HOOK BBQ 144.5028
19 We BBQ 143.4400
20 PARTS R SMOKIN 142.2284
21 UNCLE BO'S BBQ 139.9428

Brisket

21 entries · top 174.8572 · median 155.3828

#TeamScore
1 Fergolicious BBQ 174.8572
2 913 BBQ 167.9656
3 SMOKIN ROYS 167.9656
4 R BUTTS R SMOKIN 166.8800
5 MEL'S BBQ 165.7028
6 MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ 165.1428
7 D-DON'S PIT CREW 163.3712
8 BACKFIRIN' BBQ 162.2972
9 Big D's Smoking Pit 158.2744
10 DUNN UP BBQ 157.1428
11 MAD HOGS AND AN ENGLISHMAN 155.3828
12 FIRESTORM 154.2516
13 WOOD HOOK BBQ 153.0972
14 LIL' FIDDLER'S 151.3716
15 KC SMOKE DAWGS 149.0856
16 PARTS R SMOKIN 145.0400
17 SMOKEVILLE 144.5028
18 TWO GUYS AND A SMOKER 143.9544
19 We BBQ 142.8344
20 Wild Hog BBQ 142.8000
21 UNCLE BO'S BBQ 134.2172

Ancillary categories

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.

Master Series — Anything Goes

9 entries · top 180 · median 171.4628 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 D-DON'S PIT CREW 180 🔥
2 MAD HOGS AND AN ENGLISHMAN 180 🔥
3 TWO GUYS AND A SMOKER 180 🔥
4 SMOKIN ROYS 177.7028
5 We BBQ 171.4628
6 Big D's Smoking Pit 169.1656
7 UNCLE BO'S BBQ 168.6172
8 Wild Hog BBQ 166.2856
9 WOOD HOOK BBQ 151.3944

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