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Smokin on the Lake

2019-05-31 – 2019-06-01 · Monroe City, MO · 📍 42819 Landing Lane · State championship

Reps: PHIL MORROW PHB, ROSEMARY MORROW · Prize money: $2,425.00

Grand Champion: Pitmaster IQ BBQ (687.9884) · 25 teams

Reserve Champion: 🥈 OUTLAW HAWGS BBQ

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687.9884 · Master Series — Overall
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686.2168 · Master Series — Overall
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685.1084 · Master Series — Overall

The contest at a glance (read off the scored boards)

How the field scored

Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.

How the meats cooked

Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.

  • Chicken 177.14
  • Pork Ribs 175.42
  • Pork 176.58
  • Brisket 174.26
141.60 177.14

Winning score by edition

What it has taken to win here, 2014 to 2019 — this edition picked out.

2014-05-17 — 690.8800 (SMOKIN O BBQ) 2015-05-29 — 700.5368 (PITMASTERIQ BBQ) 2019-05-31 — 687.9884 (Pitmaster IQ BBQ) 687.99 2014 2019

Entries

25
4 judged meats · 3 ancillary

Top score

687.9884

Winning margin

1.7716
GC over RC

Field average

652.38
592.38687.99
median 652.58 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

0

Tightest race

Pork
1.7028 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

663.9540
592.38687.99
10th place overall

Field spread

95.6108
winner to last place

Prize money

$2,425.00
on the line

Most consistent

avg finish 4.75 across 4 meats

Double threats

6
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Brisket
won by 1.7028 pts — RIBS N BIBS

How hot was the win?

Top 75%
beats 25% of 4707 Master Series wins in the data

Came back for more

19%
5 of 26 teams from the previous edition returned

Form held

Strong
ρ = -0.65 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1570
avg power rating going in · stronger than 55% of contests

Top-rated in the field

rated 2025 pre-contest

Storylines (7 found in this contest's numbers)

Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.

An upset on the books

18-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings

The ratings favoured the top seed the other 82 times in 100

PITMASTERIQ BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 18-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.

  • champion 1756
  • top seed 2025

Back-to-back

2 in a row editions of this contest

Pitmaster IQ BBQ won here last time out too — 2 straight editions of this contest.

  • 2015
  • 2019

Won without a category win

4 of 4 meats called to the stage

PITMASTERIQ BBQ won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 4 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.

  • Chicken 5th
  • Pork Ribs 4th
  • Pork 2nd
  • Brisket 8th

A dynasty in the making

wins at this contest

2 of 3 tracked editions

PITMASTERIQ BBQ has won this contest 2 times across its 3 tracked editions.

  • 2015
  • 2019

Photo finishes

Tie closest of 7 calls decided inside half a point

Chicken places 1–2: DB BBQ and OUTLAW HAWGS BBQ tied on 177.1428 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 4–5: SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ and PITMASTERIQ BBQ tied on 173.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 3–4: WABASH BBQ and Fat Texan tied on 175.4056 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.

  • Chicken 1–2 · tie
  • Chicken 4–5 · tie
  • Pork 3–4 · tie
  • Brisket 6–7 · 0.0228

Back to defend

2 past champions back in the field

Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: SMOKIN O BBQ (won 2014), PITMASTERIQ BBQ (won 2015).

  • SMOKIN O BBQ · 2014
  • PITMASTERIQ BBQ · 2015

The contest returns

4 yrs since the last edition

This contest was away for 4 years — the previous tracked edition ran on 2015-05-29.

  • previous edition 2015-05-29

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)

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)

This contest over the years full contest page →

DateWhereVenueTeamsHigh scoreGrand ChampionReserve Champion
2014-05-17 Monroe City, MO Monroe City, MO 63456 25 690.8800 SMOKIN O BBQ BRICKHEAD BBQ
2015-05-29 Monroe City, MO Monroe City, MO 63456 26 700.5368 PITMASTERIQ BBQ BOSS HAWG BBQ
2019-05-31 ← this one Monroe City, MO 42819 Landing Lane 25 687.9884 Pitmaster IQ BBQ OUTLAW HAWGS BBQ

What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)

Category1st5th10th
Chicken177.1428173.7028167.4172
Pork Ribs175.4172169.7256164.5716
Pork176.5828174.8800166.8228
Brisket174.2628168.0000165.6800

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

25 entries · top 687.9884 · median 652.5828

#TeamScore
1 PITMASTERIQ BBQ 687.9884
2 OUTLAW HAWGS BBQ 686.2168
3 SMOKE THIS BBQ MO 685.1084
4 WABASH BBQ 684.5368
5 SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ 682.7656
6 OINK-A-DOODLE-MOO 1559 671.9772
7 Fat Texan 669.1428
8 Chick Huggins BBQ 669.0168
9 SMOKIN O BBQ 667.8624
10 JustCuz BBQ 663.9540
11 RIBS N BIBS 663.3712
12 DB BBQ 656.5028
13 BBQ Ballers 652.5828
14 SMOKIN' BUTTS 650.7316
15 CAPTAIN BBQ & HOT POKERS 649.0744
16 Bone N BBQ 648.4916
17 3G'S BAR-B-Q TEAM 646.1372
18 NA-DA-BONE BBQ 639.2912
19 SubZero 637.6920
20 JunkYard Hog 637.6908
21 Triple B BBQ 630.2516
22 Spit Bucket BBQ 623.8740
23 Red Shed Smokehouse 607.2460
24 RANDALL'S CLUCKER CREW 605.5308
25 Better Than Yours BBQ 592.3776

Chicken

25 entries · top 177.1428 · median 163.9656

#TeamScore
1 DB BBQ 177.1428
2 OUTLAW HAWGS BBQ 177.1428
3 SMOKIN O BBQ 176.5828
4 SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ 173.7028
5 PITMASTERIQ BBQ 173.7028
6 WABASH BBQ 172.0000
7 JustCuz BBQ 170.8800
8 CAPTAIN BBQ & HOT POKERS 170.8456
9 SMOKE THIS BBQ MO 167.9656
10 OINK-A-DOODLE-MOO 1559 167.4172
11 SMOKIN' BUTTS 165.6800
12 Fat Texan 164.0116
13 Chick Huggins BBQ 163.9656
14 BBQ Ballers 162.8688
15 3G'S BAR-B-Q TEAM 161.0972
16 Triple B BBQ 157.7372
17 Bone N BBQ 157.6572
18 RIBS N BIBS 156.5368
19 JunkYard Hog 155.4168
20 Red Shed Smokehouse 154.8000
21 Spit Bucket BBQ 154.2856
22 NA-DA-BONE BBQ 154.2172
23 Better Than Yours BBQ 153.0856
24 RANDALL'S CLUCKER CREW 148.5140
25 SubZero 144.5144

Pork Ribs

25 entries · top 175.4172 · median 163.9888

#TeamScore
1 SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ 175.4172
2 Bone N BBQ 174.8688
3 WABASH BBQ 172.5828
4 PITMASTERIQ BBQ 172.0000
5 BBQ Ballers 169.7256
6 Chick Huggins BBQ 168.5256
7 SMOKE THIS BBQ MO 168.0000
8 OUTLAW HAWGS BBQ 167.4056
9 Fat Texan 165.1084
10 CAPTAIN BBQ & HOT POKERS 164.5716
11 Triple B BBQ 164.0000
12 OINK-A-DOODLE-MOO 1559 164.0000
13 SMOKIN' BUTTS 163.9888
14 JustCuz BBQ 163.4284
15 JunkYard Hog 162.8800
16 RANDALL'S CLUCKER CREW 162.2744
17 RIBS N BIBS 160.5944
18 DB BBQ 159.9772
19 3G'S BAR-B-Q TEAM 158.2400
20 NA-DA-BONE BBQ 157.6684
21 SMOKIN O BBQ 156.5028
22 SubZero 154.2860
23 Spit Bucket BBQ 154.2516
24 Red Shed Smokehouse 151.4060
25 Better Than Yours BBQ 146.8232

Pork

25 entries · top 176.5828 · median 164.0228

#TeamScore
1 SMOKE THIS BBQ MO 176.5828
2 PITMASTERIQ BBQ 175.4400
3 WABASH BBQ 175.4056
4 Fat Texan 175.4056
5 OINK-A-DOODLE-MOO 1559 174.8800
6 SubZero 173.7488
7 OUTLAW HAWGS BBQ 172.5600
8 RIBS N BIBS 171.9772
9 Chick Huggins BBQ 169.1200
10 3G'S BAR-B-Q TEAM 166.8228
11 SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ 166.2628
12 DB BBQ 165.7028
13 BBQ Ballers 164.0228
14 Bone N BBQ 164.0000
15 JustCuz BBQ 162.8228
16 SMOKIN O BBQ 162.8112
17 JunkYard Hog 161.6912
18 NA-DA-BONE BBQ 159.4056
19 SMOKIN' BUTTS 156.5144
20 CAPTAIN BBQ & HOT POKERS 153.7028
21 Spit Bucket BBQ 153.0856
22 Better Than Yours BBQ 150.8688
23 Red Shed Smokehouse 148.5028
24 Triple B BBQ 143.9544
25 RANDALL'S CLUCKER CREW 143.9540

Brisket

25 entries · top 174.2628 · median 164.5600

#TeamScore
1 RIBS N BIBS 174.2628
2 SMOKE THIS BBQ MO 172.5600
3 SMOKIN O BBQ 171.9656
4 OUTLAW HAWGS BBQ 169.1084
5 NA-DA-BONE BBQ 168.0000
6 Chick Huggins BBQ 167.4056
7 SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ 167.3828
8 PITMASTERIQ BBQ 166.8456
9 JustCuz BBQ 166.8228
10 OINK-A-DOODLE-MOO 1559 165.6800
11 SubZero 165.1428
12 Fat Texan 164.6172
13 Triple B BBQ 164.5600
14 WABASH BBQ 164.5484
15 SMOKIN' BUTTS 164.5484
16 Spit Bucket BBQ 162.2512
17 3G'S BAR-B-Q TEAM 159.9772
18 CAPTAIN BBQ & HOT POKERS 159.9544
19 JunkYard Hog 157.7028
20 BBQ Ballers 155.9656
21 DB BBQ 153.6800
22 Red Shed Smokehouse 152.5372
23 Bone N BBQ 151.9656
24 RANDALL'S CLUCKER CREW 150.7884
25 Better Than Yours BBQ 141.6000

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 — Dessert

10 entries · top 180.0000 · median 173.4230 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 RIBS N BIBS 180.0000 🔥
2 Fat Texan 177.7144
3 DB BBQ 176.5600
4 CAPTAIN BBQ & HOT POKERS 176.0116
5 RANDALL'S CLUCKER CREW 175.4288
6 Bone N BBQ 171.4172
7 SubZero 170.8456
8 Red Shed Smokehouse 164.0000
9 OINK-A-DOODLE-MOO 1559 163.3828
10 NA-DA-BONE BBQ 159.4628

Kids-Q — Kids 5-10

2 entries · top 177.1772 · median 171.7314

#TeamScore
1 Evie Henebry 177.1772
2 Ivan Henebry 166.2856

Kids-Q — Teens 11-15

1 entries · top 167.4172 · median 167.4172

#TeamScore
1 Duane Thompson 167.4172

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