2017-10-13 – 2017-10-14 · Desoto, KS · 📍 33440 W 79th
Grand Champion: 913 BBQ (706.2860) · 55 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 SHAKE 'N BAKE 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.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 77 times in 100
913 BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 23-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Stronger than 90% of every rated contest
The field averaged a 1628 power rating going in — stronger than 90% of every contest tracked.
Chicken places 2–3: 913 BBQ and DIRT ROAD BBQ tied on 177.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 5–6: THESLABS.COM and JOUSTING PIGS BBQ tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 6–7: JOUSTING PIGS BBQ and SMOOTH SMOKE tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ won Pork Ribs, Pork — a double.
913 BBQ took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was pork ribs at 10th.
Bigger than 90% of the 5,410 contests in the data
55 teams made this a bigger field than 90% of every contest tracked.
1 perfect 180 was scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 177.7144 | 176.5600 | 176.0000 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.7372 | 175.4172 | 174.2860 |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 176.5600 | 173.7372 |
| Brisket | 179.4400 | 174.2744 | 173.7144 |
55 entries · top 706.2860 · median 678.8112
55 entries · top 177.7144 · median 169.6800
55 entries · top 177.7372 · median 167.9888
55 entries · top 180.0000 · median 169.1084 · 🔥 perfect 180
55 entries · top 179.4400 · median 169.6684
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.
13 entries · top 179.4400 · median 174.8456
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | FULL BOAR BBQ | |
| 2 | THESLABS.COM | |
| 3 | THE SMOKING HILLS | |
| 4 | HUNKA HUNKA BURNIN' RUB | |
| 5 | 913 BBQ | |
| 6 | SMALLEYWOOD BBQ | |
| 7 | ASHES TO ASHES | |
| 8 | NELSON FAMILY BARBEQUE | |
| 9 | THREE LEGGED PIG BBQ | |
| 10 | JOUSTING PIGS BBQ 2.0 | |
| 11 | ROCK N BLUES BBQ | |
| 12 | BULLETS AND BUTTS | |
| 13 | SMOOTH SMOKE |