2018-05-04 – 2018-05-05 · Huntsville, AL · 📍 Church Street
Grand Champion: SMOKE ME SILLY (703.9428) · 61 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 THE SPECIALISTS
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, 2014 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.
Closer than 94% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.5256 points — closer than 94% of every championship in the data.
703.9428 is the highest overall score this contest has ever produced — past the 703.4404 SMOKE ME SILLY set in 2017.
SMOKE ME SILLY won here last time out too — 2 straight editions of this contest.
3 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
3 of 6 tracked editions
SMOKE ME SILLY has won this contest 3 times across its 6 tracked editions.
Chicken places 3–4: CHOKIN 'N' THA SMOKE and HICKORY PRIME tied on 177.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 6–7: THE ALGOOD BAR-B-Q PIT CREW and HOT COLE'S BBQ tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 6–7: SLAYTON'S BARBEQUE COMPANY and OLDE TOWNE QUEING CO tied on 175.4172 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
Organizer Portal took the title on 3 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was chicken at 27th.
FAT, DRUNK & STUPID turned in 180.0000 in pork ribs — past the 177.7144 that had stood across 4 earlier editions.
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: Pig Time BBQ (won 2014), WILD BUNCH BUTT BURNERS (won 2016).
Bigger than 93% of the 5,410 contests in the data
61 teams made this a bigger field than 93% of every contest tracked.
Records held by every edition of this contest put together, not just this one afternoon.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-02 | Huntsville, AL | Huntsville, AL 35801 | 62 | 702.2400 | Pig Time BBQ | Organizer Portal |
| 2015-05-01 | Huntsville, AL | Huntsville, AL 35801 | 63 | 701.6456 | SMOKE ME SILLY | SOUTH PORK |
| 2016-05-06 | Huntsville, AL | Huntsville, AL 35801 | 67 | 701.6800 | WILD BUNCH BUTT BURNERS | Organizer Portal |
| 2017-05-05 | Huntsville, AL | Church Street | 69 | 703.4404 | SMOKE ME SILLY | HOT COLE'S BBQ |
| 2018-05-04 ← this one | Huntsville, AL | Church Street | 61 | 703.9428 | SMOKE ME SILLY | THE SPECIALISTS |
| 2019-05-03 | Huntsville, AL | Church Street | 54 | 698.2284 | South Pork | Organizer Portal |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 177.1428 | 174.2972 |
| Pork Ribs | 180.0000 | 176.0116 | 174.2628 |
| Pork | 178.2972 | 175.4056 | 174.2628 |
| Brisket | 180.0000 | 177.1428 | 174.2628 |
61 entries · top 703.9428 · median 671.8856
61 entries · top 180.0000 · median 169.6800 · 🔥 perfect 180
61 entries · top 180.0000 · median 166.8344 · 🔥 perfect 180
61 entries · top 178.2972 · median 167.4172
61 entries · top 180.0000 · median 169.1428 · 🔥 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.
64 entries · top 348.0572 · median 307.9140
61 entries · top 176.5600 · median 154.8456
64 entries · top 178.8800 · median 158.3030