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Ocean Sate BBQ Championship

2017-10-21 · West Kingston, RI · 📍 Wawaloam Campground, 510 Gardiner RD

Grand Champion: DR. PEARL'S MEDICINAL SMOKE BBQ TEAM (681.0744) · 24 teams

Reserve Champion: 🥈 Rogue Hog BBQ

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DR. PEARL'S MEDICINAL SMOKE BBQ TEAM
681.0744 · Master Series — Overall
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Rogue Hog BBQ
678.2628 · Master Series — Overall
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SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA
677.0744 · 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 176.00
  • Pork Ribs 178.88
  • Pork 178.30
  • Brisket 176.56
125.60 178.88

Entries

24
4 judged meats · 1 ancillary

Top score

681.0744

Winning margin

2.8116
GC over RC

Field average

640.92
555.68681.07
median 647.11 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

0

Tightest race

Pork
5.7372 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

658.2056
555.68681.07
10th place overall

Field spread

125.3952
winner to last place

Most consistent

DR. PEARL'S MEDICINAL SMOKE BBQ TEAM
avg finish 5.75 across 4 meats

Double threats

6
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Brisket
won by 4.5712 pts — THE BASIC BBQ TEAM

How hot was the win?

Top 88%
beats 12% of 4707 Master Series wins in the data

Form held

Strong
ρ = -0.86 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1599
avg power rating going in · stronger than 77% of contests

Top-rated in the field

LO' -N- SLO' BBQ
rated 1826 pre-contest

Storylines (3 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

Dr. Pearl's Medicinal Smoke BBQ Team came in rated below the field's top team, LO' -N- SLO' BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 32-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.

  • champion 1698
  • top seed 1826

Won without a category win

3 of 4 meats called to the stage

DR. PEARL'S MEDICINAL SMOKE BBQ TEAM won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 3 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.

  • Chicken 14th
  • Pork Ribs 2nd
  • Pork 3rd
  • Brisket 4th

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
Chicken176.0000168.5600164.0000
Pork Ribs178.8800169.7028163.4172
Pork178.2972172.5600165.6800
Brisket176.5600169.7028165.7028

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

24 entries · top 681.0744 · median 647.1088

#TeamScore
1 DR. PEARL'S MEDICINAL SMOKE BBQ TEAM 681.0744
2 Rogue Hog BBQ 678.2628
3 SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA 677.0744
4 FIRE DOWN BELOW 677.0516
5 TEAM EATAPEDIA 675.8856
6 SMOKIN ACES 673.6228
7 LO' -N- SLO' BBQ 669.6116
8 JOHN'S TWISTED Q 665.0856
9 PADDY MCQ'S 659.3140
10 STUBBORN BULL BBQ 658.2056
11 THE BASIC BBQ TEAM 656.4572
12 BEVERAGE BROTHERS 647.4060
13 HUMPHREY'S BBQ 646.8116
14 OUR BARK IS BETTER THAN YOUR BITE 644.6288
15 Cousin's Catering and BBQ 639.9200
16 BOO BOO QUED 635.8972
17 FLATLANDER BARBECUE 635.8628
18 BACKDRAFT BAR-B-Q CT 632.9484
19 TEAM MEAT BBQ 616.4916
20 Game of Bones 605.0860
21 DUNKLE'S BBQ 592.3200
22 WOOD & STEEL BBQ 587.2000
23 BACON HOGS BBQ 570.2516
24 Johnny's BBQ 555.6792

Chicken

24 entries · top 176.0000 · median 163.3942

#TeamScore
1 TEAM EATAPEDIA 176.0000
2 LO' -N- SLO' BBQ 173.1316
3 JOHN'S TWISTED Q 172.5828
4 SMOKIN ACES 170.8228
5 BOO BOO QUED 168.5600
6 OUR BARK IS BETTER THAN YOUR BITE 168.0228
7 SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA 167.9772
8 FIRE DOWN BELOW 166.8112
9 HUMPHREY'S BBQ 166.2628
10 Rogue Hog BBQ 164.0000
11 Cousin's Catering and BBQ 164.0000
12 BEVERAGE BROTHERS 163.9656
13 THE BASIC BBQ TEAM 162.8228
14 DR. PEARL'S MEDICINAL SMOKE BBQ TEAM 162.2516
15 PADDY MCQ'S 162.2284
16 TEAM MEAT BBQ 160.0228
17 FLATLANDER BARBECUE 158.8572
18 STUBBORN BULL BBQ 158.2628
19 BACKDRAFT BAR-B-Q CT 158.2516
20 DUNKLE'S BBQ 153.6572
21 WOOD & STEEL BBQ 148.5256
22 Game of Bones 148.0000
23 BACON HOGS BBQ 147.9656
24 Johnny's BBQ 129.6684

Pork Ribs

24 entries · top 178.8800 · median 160.8228

#TeamScore
1 Rogue Hog BBQ 178.8800
2 DR. PEARL'S MEDICINAL SMOKE BBQ TEAM 174.8688
3 SMOKIN ACES 173.7144
4 SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA 170.8572
5 STUBBORN BULL BBQ 169.7028
6 TEAM EATAPEDIA 169.6800
7 FIRE DOWN BELOW 167.4060
8 OUR BARK IS BETTER THAN YOUR BITE 166.8688
9 PADDY MCQ'S 166.2972
10 HUMPHREY'S BBQ 163.4172
11 BEVERAGE BROTHERS 161.1316
12 WOOD & STEEL BBQ 161.0856
13 BACKDRAFT BAR-B-Q CT 160.5600
14 JOHN'S TWISTED Q 160.0116
15 LO' -N- SLO' BBQ 159.9656
16 THE BASIC BBQ TEAM 155.4172
17 Cousin's Catering and BBQ 154.8460
18 TEAM MEAT BBQ 154.2744
19 FLATLANDER BARBECUE 151.3716
20 Johnny's BBQ 150.1940
21 BOO BOO QUED 142.7772
22 BACON HOGS BBQ 141.1660
23 Game of Bones 139.4172
24 DUNKLE'S BBQ 125.6000

Pork

24 entries · top 178.2972 · median 163.6742

#TeamScore
1 BEVERAGE BROTHERS 178.2972
2 SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA 174.8572
3 DR. PEARL'S MEDICINAL SMOKE BBQ TEAM 173.7028
4 FIRE DOWN BELOW 173.1316
5 FLATLANDER BARBECUE 172.5600
6 PADDY MCQ'S 170.2628
7 SMOKIN ACES 169.1200
8 HUMPHREY'S BBQ 167.4172
9 DUNKLE'S BBQ 166.2628
10 Rogue Hog BBQ 165.6800
11 LO' -N- SLO' BBQ 164.5256
12 STUBBORN BULL BBQ 163.9656
13 BACKDRAFT BAR-B-Q CT 163.3828
14 JOHN'S TWISTED Q 162.2284
15 THE BASIC BBQ TEAM 161.6572
16 TEAM EATAPEDIA 161.6456
17 BOO BOO QUED 158.8572
18 Game of Bones 157.6916
19 Cousin's Catering and BBQ 154.8112
20 OUR BARK IS BETTER THAN YOUR BITE 153.1772
21 TEAM MEAT BBQ 150.8000
22 WOOD & STEEL BBQ 143.9544
23 BACON HOGS BBQ 141.1200
24 Johnny's BBQ 137.0284

Brisket

24 entries · top 176.5600 · median 160.2514

#TeamScore
1 THE BASIC BBQ TEAM 176.5600
2 LO' -N- SLO' BBQ 171.9888
3 JOHN'S TWISTED Q 170.2628
4 DR. PEARL'S MEDICINAL SMOKE BBQ TEAM 170.2512
5 FIRE DOWN BELOW 169.7028
6 Rogue Hog BBQ 169.7028
7 TEAM EATAPEDIA 168.5600
8 STUBBORN BULL BBQ 166.2744
9 Cousin's Catering and BBQ 166.2628
10 BOO BOO QUED 165.7028
11 SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA 163.3828
12 PADDY MCQ'S 160.5256
13 Game of Bones 159.9772
14 SMOKIN ACES 159.9656
15 OUR BARK IS BETTER THAN YOUR BITE 156.5600
16 FLATLANDER BARBECUE 153.0740
17 TEAM MEAT BBQ 151.3944
18 BACKDRAFT BAR-B-Q CT 150.7540
19 HUMPHREY'S BBQ 149.7144
20 DUNKLE'S BBQ 146.8000
21 BEVERAGE BROTHERS 144.0116
22 BACON HOGS BBQ 140.0000
23 Johnny's BBQ 138.7884
24 WOOD & STEEL BBQ 133.6344

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 — Scallops

7 entries · top 173.7028 · median 164.0112

#TeamScore
1 DUNKLE'S BBQ 173.7028
2 WOOD & STEEL BBQ 170.2856
3 DR. PEARL'S MEDICINAL SMOKE BBQ TEAM 167.4056
4 TEAM MEAT BBQ 164.0112
5 BEVERAGE BROTHERS 163.4628
6 BACKDRAFT BAR-B-Q CT 163.3596
7 Cousin's Catering and BBQ 145.6572

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