Limp Brisket won Grand Champion at the Cameron Cruise N Que (BACKYARD ONLY) on July 5, 2019 in Cameron, MO at McCorkle Park, scoring 333.1316 in a field of 8 teams. Griesedieck Brothers BBQ took Reserve Grand Champion with 321.1776. Category winners: Chicken — Limp Brisket (169.7144); Pork Ribs — Meat N Sliders (171.4628).
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.
265.66median 318.23333.13 🏆
How the meats cooked
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.
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An upset on the books
26-in-100shot on pre-contest ratings
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 74 times in 100
Limp Brisket came in rated below the field's top team, SMOKE SHOW, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 26-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
champion 1436
top seed 1619
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A first Grand Championship
11tracked contests to get there
This was Limp Brisket's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 11th tracked contest.
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A statement win
11.9540points clear of the field
Wider than 94% of the 616 championships in the data
The champion won by 11.9540 points — a wider margin than 94% of championships in the data.
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A rookie on the podium
2ndat their first tracked contest
Griesedieck Brothers BBQ finished 2nd overall in the first contest the data has them cooking at all.
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)
Score distribution
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)
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)