2017-06-02 – 2017-06-03 · Lee's Summit, MO · 📍 Unity Village
Grand Champion: SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ (708.0000) · 65 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 CHARCOAL MONKEY
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, 2013 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.
708.0000 is the highest overall score this contest has ever produced — past the 696.5028 SLAPS BBQ set in 2015.
Wider than 98% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The champion won by 17.7256 points — a wider margin than 98% of championships in the data.
Chicken places 6–7: LIVESPARKS and SONS OF A BRISKET tied on 174.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 3–4: ALL FORKED UP FOR Q and CHEECH AND TONGS tied on 173.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 6–7: JAESTAR BBQ and TEMPLETON RYE WOODFELLAS tied on 171.9656 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ won Pork Ribs, Brisket — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was pork at 5th.
CRS BARBEQUE turned in 180.0000 in chicken — past the 177.7144 that had stood across 3 earlier editions.
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: THESLABS.COM (won 2013), SMOOTH SMOKE (won 2014).
Bigger than 94% of the 5,410 contests in the data
65 teams made this a bigger field than 94% of every contest tracked.
2 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-07 | Lees Summit, MO | Lees Summit, MO | 81 | 690.2858 | THESLABS.COM | COUNTY LINE SMOKERS |
| 2014-06-06 | Lee's Summit, MO | Lee's Summit, MO 64063 | 79 | 686.8004 | SMOOTH SMOKE | PELLET ENVY |
| 2015-06-05 | Lee's Summit, MO | Lee's Summit, MO 64063 | 78 | 696.5028 | SLAPS BBQ | TEAM GETTING SAUCED |
| 2017-06-02 ← this one | Lee's Summit, MO | Unity Village | 65 | 708.0000 | SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ | CHARCOAL MONKEY |
| 2018-06-01 | Lee's Summit, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2019-07-19 | Unity Village, MO | 1901 NW Blue Parkway | 35 | 705.6916 | DIRT ROAD BBQ | 4 LEGS UP BBQ |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 175.4172 | 172.0116 |
| Pork Ribs | 175.4172 | 171.9772 | 170.8344 |
| Pork | 177.1428 | 174.8800 | 171.4056 |
| Brisket | 180.0000 | 175.4056 | 172.0000 |
65 entries · top 708.0000 · median 649.6000
65 entries · top 180.0000 · median 165.1200 · 🔥 perfect 180
65 entries · top 175.4172 · median 162.2400
65 entries · top 177.1428 · median 166.2856
65 entries · top 180.0000 · median 160.5372 · 🔥 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.
35 entries · top 180.0000 · median 173.1084 · 🔥 perfect 180
11 entries · top 178.8800 · median 168.5828
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taylor Scheer | |
| 2 | CAMDEN TRESTON | |
| 3 | JACKSON JONES | |
| 4 | IRELAND TAYLOR | |
| 5 | WILL YORK | |
| 6 | Bogan Weikel | |
| 7 | Tatum Scheer | |
| 8 | HANNAH TAYLOR | |
| 9 | JORDON BRESETTE | |
| 10 | GABRIEL ARNETT | |
| 11 | COOPER WEIKEL |