Smoke & Fire (BACKYARD ONLY)
2026-04-24 – 2026-04-25 · Stanley, WI · 📍 Chapman Park
Reps: LAURIE TWETEN · Prize money: $3,000.00
Grand Champion: Dawgs BBQ (352.0000) · 24 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 FENDER BENDER BBQ
Entries
Top score
Winning margin
Field average
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
Field spread
Prize money
How hot was the win?
Traveled in
Came back for more
Form held
Field strength
Storylines
👑 A dynasty in the making
Dawgs BBQ has won this contest 2 times across its 3 tracked editions.
🧳 Out-of-towners took the title
DAWGS BBQ took the Grand Championship home to MN.
📸 Photo finishes
Pork Ribs places 3–4: SASSY SMOKE BBQ and Porket About It tied on 173.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 9–10: Big Bear BBQ edged All Smoked Up BBQ by 0.0112. Chicken places 9–10: T Daddys BBQ edged FENDER BENDER BBQ by 0.0116.
🛡️ Back to defend
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: Dawgs BBQ (won 2024), Briskey Business BBQ (won 2025).
🏟️ A stacked field
The field averaged a 1602 power rating going in — stronger than 92% of every contest tracked.
🃏 An upset on the books
DAWGS BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, WEEZ'S GROOVIN' BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 29-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
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)
Score distribution
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)
Where the field came from (home regions on file)
This contest over the years full contest page →
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-05 | Stanley, WI | Chapman Park | 16 | 350.8572 | Dawgs BBQ | — |
| 2025-04-25 | Stanley, WI | Soo Line Park | 24 | 348.5372 | Briskey Business BBQ | — |
| 2026-04-24 ← this one | Stanley, WI | Chapman Park | 24 | 352.0000 | Dawgs BBQ | — |
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 174.2972 | 170.2628 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.7372 | 172.5600 | 168.5716 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Backyard Series
Overall
24 entries · top 352.0000 · median 334.5430
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | DAWGS BBQ | |
| 2 | FENDER BENDER BBQ | |
| 3 | Big Bear BBQ | |
| 4 | Sensuous BBQ | |
| 5 | Porket About It | |
| 6 | SASSY SMOKE BBQ | |
| 7 | Briskey Business BBQ | |
| 8 | WEEZ'S GROOVIN' BBQ | |
| 9 | Big Mike's Smokehouse | |
| 10 | Too Sauced Guys Bar-B-Que | |
| 11 | Rudes BBQ | |
| 12 | SmoQued On Main St | |
| 13 | Furlongs Smoke & Seafood | |
| 14 | Skinny Pig BBQ | |
| 15 | Wapatui Smokers | |
| 16 | All Smoked Up BBQ | |
| 17 | Natural Born Grillers | |
| 18 | Charlie's Long Smoked | |
| 19 | Boss Mountain | |
| 20 | Ole Mae I BBQ | |
| 21 | T Daddys BBQ | |
| 22 | SMOKEY GQ | |
| 23 | Hogs & Hoses | |
| 24 | Not Bad BBQ |
Chicken
24 entries · top 180.0000 · median 168.8400 · 🔥 perfect 180
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | DAWGS BBQ | |
| 2 | Big Bear BBQ | |
| 3 | Too Sauced Guys Bar-B-Que | |
| 4 | Briskey Business BBQ | |
| 5 | Rudes BBQ | |
| 6 | WEEZ'S GROOVIN' BBQ | |
| 7 | Porket About It | |
| 8 | Big Mike's Smokehouse | |
| 9 | T Daddys BBQ | |
| 10 | FENDER BENDER BBQ | |
| 11 | Sensuous BBQ | |
| 12 | Skinny Pig BBQ | |
| 13 | SASSY SMOKE BBQ | |
| 14 | SmoQued On Main St | |
| 15 | Natural Born Grillers | |
| 16 | Furlongs Smoke & Seafood | |
| 17 | Boss Mountain | |
| 18 | All Smoked Up BBQ | |
| 19 | Wapatui Smokers | |
| 20 | Ole Mae I BBQ | |
| 21 | SMOKEY GQ | |
| 22 | Hogs & Hoses | |
| 23 | Charlie's Long Smoked | |
| 24 | Not Bad BBQ |
Pork Ribs
24 entries · top 177.7372 · median 167.1086
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | FENDER BENDER BBQ | |
| 2 | Sensuous BBQ | |
| 3 | SASSY SMOKE BBQ | |
| 4 | Porket About It | |
| 5 | Charlie's Long Smoked | |
| 6 | DAWGS BBQ | |
| 7 | Wapatui Smokers | |
| 8 | SmoQued On Main St | |
| 9 | Big Bear BBQ | |
| 10 | All Smoked Up BBQ | |
| 11 | Big Mike's Smokehouse | |
| 12 | Furlongs Smoke & Seafood | |
| 13 | Ole Mae I BBQ | |
| 14 | Boss Mountain | |
| 15 | WEEZ'S GROOVIN' BBQ | |
| 16 | Briskey Business BBQ | |
| 17 | Natural Born Grillers | |
| 18 | Rudes BBQ | |
| 19 | Skinny Pig BBQ | |
| 20 | Too Sauced Guys Bar-B-Que | |
| 21 | SMOKEY GQ | |
| 22 | T Daddys BBQ | |
| 23 | Not Bad BBQ | |
| 24 | Hogs & Hoses |