2017-02-03 – 2017-02-04 · Humble, TX · 📍 8233 Will Clayton Blvd
Grand Champion: IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ (699.4056) · 136 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 BUTCHER BBQ
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.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 3 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.
3 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
Chicken places 5–6: U-Gotta-B-Chitlin-Me and ONE MAN PITS tied on 173.7256 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 6–7: ONE MAN PITS and JERRY KING MIDLAND TX tied on 173.7256 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 8–9: TDC Cookers Joel and SMOKERS PURGATORY tied on 172.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
Bigger than 99% of the 5,410 contests in the data
136 teams made this a bigger field than 99% of every contest tracked.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 173.7256 | 172.0000 |
| Pork Ribs | 178.2972 | 173.7028 | 171.4744 |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 175.4172 | 173.1428 |
| Brisket | 180.0000 | 176.0000 | 173.7028 |
136 entries · top 699.4056 · median 632.5314
131 entries · top 180.0000 · median 158.7884 · 🔥 perfect 180
135 entries · top 178.2972 · median 161.1428
130 entries · top 180.0000 · median 158.2970 · 🔥 perfect 180
136 entries · top 180.0000 · median 157.6800 · 🔥 perfect 180
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.
66 entries · top 176.0344 · median 152.3084
48 entries · top 178.8800 · median 154.2858