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*Bryant's Buzzin BBQ Bash

2017-09-29 – 2017-09-30 · Bryant, AR · 📍 6401 Boone RD

Grand Champion: 501 BBQ (689.6228) · 19 teams

Reserve Champion: 🥈 SURVIVOR-QUE

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501 BBQ
689.6228 · Master Series — Overall
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SURVIVOR-QUE
687.3716 · Master Series — Overall
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ALL Q'UED UP!
685.6684 · Master Series — Overall

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 175.43
  • Pork Ribs 173.71
  • Pork 176.56
  • Brisket 174.85
130.77 176.56

Winning score by edition

What it has taken to win here, 2015 to 2017 — this edition picked out.

2015-09-25 — 693.6912 (LOTTA BULL BBQ) 2016-09-23 — 683.9772 (NCOGNITO COOKERS) 2017-09-29 — 689.6228 (501 BBQ) 689.62 2015 2017

Entries

19
4 judged meats

Top score

689.6228

Winning margin

2.2512
GC over RC

Field average

649.81
572.89689.62
median 655.82 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

0

Tightest race

Pork Ribs
3.4400 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

655.8168
572.89689.62
10th place overall

Field spread

116.7316
winner to last place

Most consistent

501 BBQ
avg finish 3.25 across 4 meats

Double threats

6
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Pork
won by 3.4400 pts — GINDER'S FLIPPIN GOOD BBQ

How hot was the win?

Top 72%
beats 28% of 4707 Master Series wins in the data

Came back for more

32%
8 of 25 teams from the previous edition returned

Form held

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

Field strength

1552
avg power rating going in · stronger than 40% of contests

Top-rated in the field

FIRE DANCER BBQ
rated 1804 pre-contest

Storylines (5 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

26-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings

The ratings favoured the top seed the other 74 times in 100

501 BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, FIRE DANCER BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 26-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.

  • champion 1623
  • top seed 1804

A double category winner

2 category wins in a day

501 BBQ won Chicken, Brisket — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.

  • Chicken 1st
  • Brisket 1st

How the title was won

4 of 4 meats called to the stage

501 BBQ took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was pork at 9th.

  • Chicken 1st
  • Pork Ribs 2nd
  • Pork 9th
  • Brisket 1st

A contest record in chicken

175.4288 best chicken ever cooked here

501 BBQ turned in 175.4288 in chicken — past the 175.4172 that had stood across 2 earlier editions.

  • old best 175.4172
  • across 2 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
2015-09-25 Bryant, AR Bryant , AR 70200 16 693.6912 LOTTA BULL BBQ BBQR'S DELIGHT
2016-09-23 Bryant, AR Bryant, AR 25 683.9772 NCOGNITO COOKERS DAD'S GRILLIN CREW
2017-09-29 ← this one Bryant, AR 6401 Boone RD 19 689.6228 501 BBQ SURVIVOR-QUE
2018-09-28 Bryant, AR — — — — —

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

Category1st5th10th
Chicken175.4288171.4400163.9428
Pork Ribs173.7144170.2744165.0856
Pork176.5600169.7372162.8228
Brisket174.8456168.0116163.9884

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

19 entries · top 689.6228 · median 655.8168

#TeamScore
1 501 BBQ 689.6228
2 SURVIVOR-QUE 687.3716
3 ALL Q'UED UP! 685.6684
4 FIRE DANCER BBQ 674.1940
5 DAD'S GRILLIN CREW 672.4684
6 GINDER'S FLIPPIN GOOD BBQ 672.4112
7 LONGNECK SIPPERS 670.2168
8 Vanilla Gorilla Grill Guru 666.2744
9 EPIC BBQ CRU 661.6000
10 BBQR'S DELIGHT 655.8168
11 ROYAL SMOKERS 651.9084
12 FULL DRAW BBQ 651.3144
13 SOUTHERN KRUNK BBQ SOCIETY 647.9084
14 Barking Hogs BBQ 645.5540
15 BORDY'S BBQ 614.2512
16 Holy Smoke Arkadelphiia 612.4344
17 Smoked Out Q 609.6000
18 BBQ Benefitting Arkansas 604.9368
19 LOOSE MEAT BBQ 572.8912

Chicken

19 entries · top 175.4288 · median 163.9428

#TeamScore
1 501 BBQ 175.4288
2 ALL Q'UED UP! 174.8456
3 FIRE DANCER BBQ 173.7028
4 SURVIVOR-QUE 172.0000
5 Vanilla Gorilla Grill Guru 171.4400
6 BBQR'S DELIGHT 170.8228
7 LONGNECK SIPPERS 167.4284
8 SOUTHERN KRUNK BBQ SOCIETY 165.7028
9 EPIC BBQ CRU 165.6800
10 DAD'S GRILLIN CREW 163.9428
11 GINDER'S FLIPPIN GOOD BBQ 163.9312
12 Holy Smoke Arkadelphiia 161.0972
13 Barking Hogs BBQ 161.0856
14 FULL DRAW BBQ 159.3712
15 Smoked Out Q 155.4400
16 ROYAL SMOKERS 155.3828
17 BORDY'S BBQ 153.7368
18 BBQ Benefitting Arkansas 148.5600
19 LOOSE MEAT BBQ 139.3940

Pork Ribs

19 entries · top 173.7144 · median 165.0856

#TeamScore
1 FIRE DANCER BBQ 173.7144
2 501 BBQ 173.1200
3 GINDER'S FLIPPIN GOOD BBQ 171.4056
4 LONGNECK SIPPERS 170.8228
5 SURVIVOR-QUE 170.2744
6 Vanilla Gorilla Grill Guru 170.2628
7 ALL Q'UED UP! 170.2628
8 FULL DRAW BBQ 169.6916
9 DAD'S GRILLIN CREW 167.3828
10 ROYAL SMOKERS 165.0856
11 EPIC BBQ CRU 162.8228
12 BBQR'S DELIGHT 160.5256
13 SOUTHERN KRUNK BBQ SOCIETY 159.9772
14 Barking Hogs BBQ 159.9656
15 BBQ Benefitting Arkansas 153.0972
16 BORDY'S BBQ 151.3944
17 Holy Smoke Arkadelphiia 150.8344
18 Smoked Out Q 146.8000
19 LOOSE MEAT BBQ 144.5144

Pork

19 entries · top 176.5600 · median 162.8228

#TeamScore
1 GINDER'S FLIPPIN GOOD BBQ 176.5600
2 SURVIVOR-QUE 173.1200
3 ALL Q'UED UP! 172.5828
4 Barking Hogs BBQ 170.2628
5 Holy Smoke Arkadelphiia 169.7372
6 DAD'S GRILLIN CREW 168.0228
7 EPIC BBQ CRU 168.0000
8 LONGNECK SIPPERS 167.4400
9 501 BBQ 166.2284
10 BBQR'S DELIGHT 162.8228
11 FIRE DANCER BBQ 162.7884
12 FULL DRAW BBQ 160.5600
13 Smoked Out Q 160.0000
14 ROYAL SMOKERS 159.4400
15 BORDY'S BBQ 157.1544
16 Vanilla Gorilla Grill Guru 156.5600
17 SOUTHERN KRUNK BBQ SOCIETY 156.0000
18 BBQ Benefitting Arkansas 151.3484
19 LOOSE MEAT BBQ 134.2172

Brisket

19 entries · top 174.8456 · median 163.9884

#TeamScore
1 501 BBQ 174.8456
2 DAD'S GRILLIN CREW 173.1200
3 ROYAL SMOKERS 172.0000
4 SURVIVOR-QUE 171.9772
5 Vanilla Gorilla Grill Guru 168.0116
6 ALL Q'UED UP! 167.9772
7 SOUTHERN KRUNK BBQ SOCIETY 166.2284
8 EPIC BBQ CRU 165.0972
9 LONGNECK SIPPERS 164.5256
10 FIRE DANCER BBQ 163.9884
11 FULL DRAW BBQ 161.6916
12 BBQR'S DELIGHT 161.6456
13 GINDER'S FLIPPIN GOOD BBQ 160.5144
14 LOOSE MEAT BBQ 154.7656
15 Barking Hogs BBQ 154.2400
16 BORDY'S BBQ 151.9656
17 BBQ Benefitting Arkansas 151.9312
18 Smoked Out Q 147.3600
19 Holy Smoke Arkadelphiia 130.7656

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