Aug 25–26, 2017 · Fleischmanns, NY · 📍 Wagner Ave
SHORTSVILLE SMOKERS won Grand Champion at The Great Catskill MTN BBQ Fest on August 25, 2017 in Fleischmanns, NY at Wagner Ave, scoring 660.5144 in a field of 17 teams. PISTOL PACKIN' PIGGIES took Reserve Grand Champion with 659.3716. Category winners: Chicken — SHORTSVILLE SMOKERS (173.7028); Pork Ribs — SKARA OLD SCHOOL BBQ (169.1772); Pork — SHORTSVILLE SMOKERS (176.0000); Brisket — BIG KEV'S BBQ (171.4744).
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.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
Closer than 81% of the 4,722 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 1.1428 points — closer than 81% of every championship in the data.
Chicken places 8–9: PISTOL PACKIN' PIGGIES and GENERAL JOE'S BBQ tied on 166.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 9–10: TOM TOM BOB A QUE edged A MAZIE Q by 0.0116. Chicken places 2–3: BACKDRAFT BAR-B-Q CT edged Spring Lake by 0.0116.
SHORTSVILLE SMOKERS won Chicken, Pork — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
SHORTSVILLE SMOKERS took the title on 3 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was brisket at 12th.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 173.7028 | 169.1200 | 166.2856 |
| Pork Ribs | 169.1772 | 159.4288 | 154.2628 |
| Pork | 176 | 166.3544 | 159.3828 |
| Brisket | 171.4744 | 163.3828 | 157.6456 |
17 entries · top 660.5144 · median 635.9544
17 entries · top 173.7028 · median 166.8572
17 entries · top 169.1772 · median 155.4288
17 entries · top 176 · median 160.5256
17 entries · top 171.4744 · median 157.6572
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.
18 entries · top 173.1428 · median 158.5430
3 entries · top 155.9772 · median 141.1656
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Darien Fire Department | |
| 2 | Fleischmanns FD | |
| 3 | Andes FD |