Bloomin' BBQ Music & Food Festival
2026-05-15 – 2026-05-16 · Sevierville, TN · 📍 209 Court Ave · State championship
Reps: CONNIE AMIDEI, JONATHAN AMIDEI · Prize money: $15,060.00
Grand Champion: Glamping Grillers (698.2056) · 33 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Blue Smoke Q
Entries
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Field average
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
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Prize money
Double threats
How hot was the win?
Traveled in
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Storylines
📸 Photo finishes
Chicken places 5–6: Blue Smoke Q and HOT COLE'S BBQ tied on 175.4172 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 8–9: TENNESSEE SMOKE SHOWIN and HOLD YOUR HORSES BBQ tied on 174.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 6–7: FRED VEGAS SMOKERS and BAD ROOSTER BBQ tied on 174.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
🛡️ Back to defend
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: Piglitically Incorrect BBQ (won 2023), HalaQyah BBQ (won 2025).
🏟️ A stacked field
The field averaged a 1601 power rating going in — stronger than 91% of every contest tracked.
🃏 An upset on the books
Glamping Grillers came in rated below the field's top team, ROOTERS-N-TOOTERS TN, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 21-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-19 | Sevierville, TN | 110 Gary Wade Blvd | 32 | 698.8228 | Piglitically Incorrect BBQ | UNDER THE RADAR |
| 2024-05-17 | Sevierville, TN | 125 Court Ave. | 31 | 707.3828 | Rooters-N-Tooters | BLUE CHIP BBQ |
| 2025-05-16 | Sevierville, TN | 209 Court Ave | 33 | 694.7656 | HalaQyah BBQ | PIGLITICALLY INCORRECT BBQ |
| 2026-05-15 ← this one | Sevierville, TN | 209 Court Ave | 33 | 698.2056 | Glamping Grillers | Blue Smoke Q |
| 2027-05-14 | Sevierville, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 175.4172 | 173.1200 |
| Pork Ribs | 180.0000 | 175.4172 | 173.1200 |
| Pork | 177.7144 | 174.8572 | 173.1200 |
| Brisket | 177.7144 | 174.2628 | 171.9656 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
33 entries · top 698.2056 · median 682.1484
Chicken
32 entries · top 180.0000 · median 171.9656 · 🔥 perfect 180
Pork Ribs
32 entries · top 180.0000 · median 171.4058 · 🔥 perfect 180
Pork
32 entries · top 177.7144 · median 167.9716
Brisket
33 entries · top 177.7144 · median 168.5256
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.
Ancillary — Anything Bushs
31 entries · top 172.0000 · median 157.1428
Ancillary — Dessert
10 entries · top 180.0000 · median 172.8400 · 🔥 perfect 180
Ancillary — Swaggertys Sausage
30 entries · top 178.2972 · median 160.0172