Esperanza Bonanza BBQ Blitz
2019-05-10 – 2019-05-11 · Marion, AR · 📍 Complex Rd · State championship
Reps: MARIA LOHMAN, WAYNE LOHMAN
Grand Champion: Dad's Grilling Crew (702.8344) · 30 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Fergolicious BBQ
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Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
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Double threats
How hot was the win?
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🪒 A razor-thin finish
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.5716 points — closer than 89% of every championship in the data.
🔥 A day of perfect scores
3 perfect 180s were scored at this contest.
📸 Photo finishes
Master Series — Chicken places 1–2: Q-BONES BBQ and Fergolicious BBQ tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Master Series — Chicken places 6–7: ROOTERS-N-TOOTERS TN and UNCLE POOKIE & THE RIBLETS tied on 174.8456 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Master Series — Chicken places 7–8: UNCLE POOKIE & THE RIBLETS and BLUE COLLAR BBQ MS tied on 174.8456 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
🃏 An upset on the books
DAD'S GRILLIN CREW came in rated below the field's top team, ROOTERS-N-TOOTERS TN, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 34-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Score curves (score by finishing position — steep cliffs mean a spread field, flat lines a knife fight)
Category showdown (top / average / median score per meat)
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Biggest rating movers (power-rating points won and lost at this contest)
Did form hold? (pre-contest rating vs overall finish — ratings called it if the dots climb to the right)
Where the field came from (home regions on file)
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Master Series — Chicken | 180.0000 | 175.4056 | 171.9772 |
| Master Series — Pork Ribs | 177.7028 | 175.4056 | 174.2628 |
| Master Series — Pork | 180.0000 | 174.2628 | 171.9772 |
| Master Series — Brisket | 179.4400 | 175.4056 | 170.8228 |
| Ancillary — Pork Ribs | 177.1428 | 167.9772 | 162.2284 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
30 entries · top 702.8344 · median 673.0570
Chicken
30 entries · top 180.0000 · median 169.9656 · 🔥 perfect 180
Pork Ribs
30 entries · top 177.7028 · median 167.9714
Pork
30 entries · top 180.0000 · median 169.1086 · 🔥 perfect 180
Brisket
30 entries · top 179.4400 · median 165.4114
Ancillary
Pork Ribs
13 entries · top 177.1428 · median 165.1428
Ancillary categories
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.
Ancillary — Cocktails
12 entries · top 180.0000 · median 175.7372 · 🔥 perfect 180
Ancillary — Fish
7 entries · top 177.1428 · median 171.9656
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nasty Boys Cooking Team | |
| 2 | Backyard Southern Style | |
| 3 | Pigs with Attitudes 1 | |
| 4 | 2nd Generation Smokers | |
| 5 | Devine Swine & Bovine | |
| 6 | Phat Chance | |
| 7 | Creek Bottom Crawlers |
Ancillary — Rice
7 entries · top 178.8572 · median 170.2512
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phat Chance | |
| 2 | Pigs with Attitudes 1 | |
| 3 | Uncle Feol's BBQ | |
| 4 | 2nd Generation Smokers | |
| 5 | Coal Base | |
| 6 | Creek Bottom Crawlers | |
| 7 | Nasty Boys Cooking Team |
Ancillary — Sauce
17 entries · top 180.0000 · median 168.5484 · 🔥 perfect 180
Ancillary — Soy
5 entries · top 170.8344 · median 165.0856
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phat Chance | |
| 2 | Pigs with Attitudes 1 | |
| 3 | Slab Techs | |
| 4 | 2nd Generation Smokers | |
| 5 | Creek Bottom Crawlers |