2018-02-02 – 2018-02-03 · Humble, TX · 📍 6233 Will Clayton Parkway
Grand Champion: BUCKSHOT BBQ - TX (691.9656) · 145 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 RIO VALLEY MEAT 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.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
Closer than 90% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.5716 points — closer than 90% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 94 times in 100
BUCKSHOT BBQ - TX came in rated below the field's top team, IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 6-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Pork places 3–4: TEXAS-CAR-B-QUE and BOOMERANG BBQ tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 3–4: Robert Smith and Texican Cookers Ken tied on 177.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 5–6: BUCKSHOT BBQ - TX and Joshua Jones tied on 176.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
BUCKSHOT BBQ - TX took the title on 3 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was pork ribs at 44th.
Bigger than 99% of the 5,410 contests in the data
145 teams made this a bigger field than 99% of every contest tracked.
1 perfect 180 was scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
What happened at this contest that stands in the all-time KCBS record book. A gold line is a record nobody has beaten.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-02-02 ← this one | Humble, TX | 6233 Will Clayton Parkway | 145 | 691.9656 | BUCKSHOT BBQ - TX | RIO VALLEY MEAT BBQ |
| 2019-02-01 | Humble, TX | 6233 Will Clayton Parkway | 126 | 689.6228 | War Pig BBQ | BOOMERANG BBQ |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 176.0000 | 173.1656 | 171.4284 |
| Pork Ribs | 178.8800 | 176.5828 | 173.7144 |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 176.0000 | 173.7256 |
| Brisket | 179.4400 | 176.0000 | 171.9888 |
145 entries · top 691.9656 · median 622.3088
138 entries · top 176.0000 · median 156.5600
141 entries · top 178.8800 · median 159.9772
136 entries · top 180.0000 · median 160.8398 · 🔥 perfect 180
139 entries · top 179.4400 · median 157.1428
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.
62 entries · top 177.1772 · median 148.8342