2017-05-05 – 2017-05-06 · Huntsville, AL · 📍 Church Street
Grand Champion: SMOKE ME SILLY (703.4404) · 69 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 HOT COLE'S 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.
What it has taken to win here, 2014 to 2019 — this edition picked out.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
703.4404 is the highest overall score this contest has ever produced — past the 702.2400 Pig Time BBQ set in 2014.
Organizer Portal won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 3 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.
3 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
3 of 6 tracked editions
SMOKE ME SILLY has won this contest 3 times across its 6 tracked editions.
Chicken places 5–6: WARREN COUNTY PORK CHOPPERS and THE SMOKIN' C'S BBQ tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 2–3: HICKORY PRIME and THE UNIVERSITY OF QUE tied on 177.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 5–6: BIG BLUE QUE and BAILEY'S SMOKERS tied on 174.2744 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
THE SPECIALISTS won Pork Ribs, Brisket — a double.
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: Pig Time BBQ (won 2014), WILD BUNCH BUTT BURNERS (won 2016).
Bigger than 95% of the 5,410 contests in the data
69 teams made this a bigger field than 95% of every contest tracked.
This contest usually draws about 64 teams
69 teams is the deepest field this contest has drawn in the data, against a typical 64.
Records held by every edition of this contest put together, not just this one afternoon.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-02 | Huntsville, AL | Huntsville, AL 35801 | 62 | 702.2400 | Pig Time BBQ | Organizer Portal |
| 2015-05-01 | Huntsville, AL | Huntsville, AL 35801 | 63 | 701.6456 | SMOKE ME SILLY | SOUTH PORK |
| 2016-05-06 | Huntsville, AL | Huntsville, AL 35801 | 67 | 701.6800 | WILD BUNCH BUTT BURNERS | Organizer Portal |
| 2017-05-05 ← this one | Huntsville, AL | Church Street | 69 | 703.4404 | SMOKE ME SILLY | HOT COLE'S BBQ |
| 2018-05-04 | Huntsville, AL | Church Street | 61 | 703.9428 | SMOKE ME SILLY | THE SPECIALISTS |
| 2019-05-03 | Huntsville, AL | Church Street | 54 | 698.2284 | South Pork | Organizer Portal |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 176.5600 | 174.8572 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.7144 | 174.2744 | 173.7144 |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 177.7144 | 174.8572 |
| Brisket | 180.0000 | 175.4056 | 171.9772 |
69 entries · top 703.4404 · median 663.3032
67 entries · top 180.0000 · median 165.1316 · 🔥 perfect 180
68 entries · top 177.7144 · median 166.2284
69 entries · top 180.0000 · median 166.8572 · 🔥 perfect 180
68 entries · top 180.0000 · median 166.2400 · 🔥 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.
66 entries · top 334.8688 · median 306.8800
65 entries · top 171.4856 · median 153.7144
66 entries · top 179.4400 · median 154.6116