2019-04-26 – 2019-04-27 · Washington, MO · 📍 317 West Main St · State championship
Reps: BUNNY TUTTLE, RICH TUTTLE · Prize money: $10,400.00
Grand Champion: HICKORY STICK BBQ (691.9544) · 39 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 SHAKE 'N BAKE 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 80% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 1.1544 points — closer than 80% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 95 times in 100
Hickory Stick BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 5-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Hickory Stick BBQ won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 3 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.
This was HICKORY STICK BBQ's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 3rd tracked contest.
Chicken places 2–3: OUTLAW HAWGS BBQ and THE SMOKING HILLS tied on 177.7144 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 7–8: RUSTY PIG BBQ and BRINGINGTHEHEATBBQ tied on 174.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 2–3: Hickory Stick BBQ and PITMASTERIQ BBQ tied on 175.4172 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ won Chicken, Pork — a double.
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.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 175.4172 | 171.9656 |
| Pork Ribs | 176.5716 | 173.1200 | 169.7028 |
| Pork | 178.8572 | 174.2628 | 170.9144 |
| Brisket | 179.4400 | 175.4172 | 174.2628 |
39 entries · top 691.9544 · median 671.8968
39 entries · top 180.0000 · median 166.8228 · 🔥 perfect 180
39 entries · top 176.5716 · median 166.2400
39 entries · top 178.8572 · median 167.4172
39 entries · top 179.4400 · median 166.8456
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.
12 entries · top 161.2000 · median 137.9658