Won without a category win
HIGH i QUE won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 4 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.
- Chicken 3rd
- Pork Ribs 2nd
- Pork 5th
- Brisket 10th
2018-06-22 – 2018-06-23 · Lenexa, KS · 📍 87th & Lackman
Grand Champion: HIGH i QUE II (700.0572) · 185 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 SUBLIME 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.
HIGH i QUE won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 4 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.
Pork Ribs places 3–4: OVERLAND TRAIL BBQ and Velvet Swine tied on 175.4400 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 9–10: Mad Cow Angry Beaver edged Broken Bottle BBQ by 0.0112. Chicken places 8–9: Nice Rack edged SUBLIME BBQ by 0.0116.
Bigger than 100% of the 5,410 contests in the data
185 teams made this a bigger field than 100% of every contest tracked.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 177.7028 | 173.7600 | 172.0000 |
| Pork Ribs | 178.8572 | 175.4172 | 172.0228 |
| Pork | 177.7372 | 175.4400 | 173.7144 |
| Brisket | 177.7372 | 173.7256 | 170.8572 |
185 entries · top 700.0572 · median 634.6856
184 entries · top 177.7028 · median 159.1142
183 entries · top 178.8572 · median 160.5372
182 entries · top 177.7372 · median 159.4172
181 entries · top 177.7372 · median 157.6684
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.
85 entries · top 179.4400 · median 165.1200
105 entries · top 178.8572 · median 162.2628
137 entries · top 178.8800 · median 163.3828