2017-10-14 – 2017-10-15 · Monson, MA · 📍 Partridge Hollow Camping Area, 70 Sutcliffe RD
Grand Champion: INSANE SWINE BBQ (695.4744) · 30 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 GOOD SMOKE 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.
Brisket places 8–9: SHORTSVILLE SMOKERS and GOOD SMOKE BBQ tied on 169.1200 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 9–10: SHORTSVILLE SMOKERS edged BACKDRAFT BAR-B-Q CT by 0.0004. Brisket places 9–10: GOOD SMOKE BBQ edged STUBBORN BULL BBQ by 0.0116.
INSANE SWINE BBQ took the title on 3 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was pork ribs at 20th.
2 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 178.2972 | 172.0228 | 168.5828 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.1772 | 172.0344 | 168.5372 |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 171.4400 | 169.7256 |
| Brisket | 180.0000 | 171.4516 | 169.1084 |
30 entries · top 695.4744 · median 663.6228
30 entries · top 178.2972 · median 167.3942
30 entries · top 177.1772 · median 165.4172
30 entries · top 180.0000 · median 167.7086 · 🔥 perfect 180
30 entries · top 180.0000 · median 164.2514 · 🔥 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.
9 entries · top 174.8456 · median 161.6800