2017-07-14 – 2017-07-15 · Wise, VA · 📍 206 E Main St
Grand Champion: ROCKY TOP BARBEQUE (677.6688) · 26 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 OLD VIRGINIA SMOKE
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, 2015 to 2026 — 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.
Closer than 89% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.5832 points — closer than 89% of every championship in the data.
2 of 11 tracked editions
ROCKY TOP BARBEQUE has won this contest 2 times across its 11 tracked editions.
Stronger than 96% of every rated contest
The field averaged a 1652 power rating going in — stronger than 96% of every contest tracked.
Chicken places 1–2: DIRTY OL' BUTT SLAPPERS and HICKORY PRIME tied on 174.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 2–3: HICKORY PRIME and WOLF'S REVENGE BBQ tied on 174.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 5–6: FRED VEGAS SMOKERS and HARLAN CO. COAL BURNERS tied on 172.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
DIRTY OL' BUTT SLAPPERS won Chicken, Pork Ribs — a double.
ROCKY TOP BARBEQUE took the title on 2 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was pork ribs at 14th.
WOLF'S REVENGE BBQ turned in 175.4056 in brisket — past the 172.5828 that had stood across 2 earlier editions.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 174.2628 | 172.5600 | 169.1200 |
| Pork Ribs | 176.0000 | 169.7028 | 165.1200 |
| Pork | 175.4172 | 166.2400 | 162.8456 |
| Brisket | 175.4056 | 170.2856 | 168.5600 |
26 entries · top 677.6688 · median 658.1770
26 entries · top 174.2628 · median 166.0000
26 entries · top 176.0000 · median 162.5544
26 entries · top 175.4172 · median 161.6800
26 entries · top 175.4056 · median 163.7086