San Luis Valley Beat the Heat BBQ
2019-08-02 – 2019-08-03 · Alamosa, CO · 📍 Cole Park · State championship
Reps: DEL ANDERSON, MICHAEL EBERLE · Prize money: $15,000.00
Grand Champion: Texas Smoke Whisperer (695.9884) · 54 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Bushmaster BBQ
Entries
Top score
Winning margin
Field average
Perfect 180s
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
Field spread
Prize money
Double threats
How hot was the win?
Traveled in
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Storylines
🧳 Out-of-towners took the title
Texas Smoke Whisperer took the Grand Championship home to MO.
🧹 A double category winner
BUCKSHOT BBQ - TX won Pork, Brisket — a double.
📸 Photo finishes
Chicken places 1–2: BACKDRAFT BBQ and Broke Ass Bar-B-Oue Team tied on 179.4400 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 9–10: HONEYMAN BBQ and MONSOON BBQ tied on 174.2744 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 3–4: SCORCH AND RESQUE and SMOKIN TRIGGERS tied on 174.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
🛡️ Back to defend
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: WOODY'S Q SHACK (won 2018).
🃏 An upset on the books
Texas Smoke Whisper came in rated below the field's top team, BOOMERANG BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 26-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)
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)
Where the field came from (home regions on file)
This contest over the years full contest page →
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-08-04 | Cole Park | 44 | 691.9200 | CLARK CREW BBQ | WOODY'S Q SHACK | |
| 2018-08-03 | Cole Park | 41 | 700.5600 | WOODY'S Q SHACK | LA PASADITA | |
| 2019-08-02 ← this one | Alamosa, CO | Cole Park | 54 | 695.9884 | Texas Smoke Whisperer | Bushmaster BBQ |
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 179.4400 | 176.0000 | 174.2744 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.1428 | 174.8572 | 172.5600 |
| Pork | 177.1428 | 174.2744 | 172.5828 |
| Brisket | 177.7144 | 174.8572 | 171.9656 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
54 entries · top 695.9884 · median 668.4512
Chicken
54 entries · top 179.4400 · median 169.1142
Pork Ribs
54 entries · top 177.1428 · median 166.8686
Pork
54 entries · top 177.1428 · median 166.2400
Brisket
54 entries · top 177.7144 · median 165.9600
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.
Kids-Q — Kid Q Young Gun
10 entries · top 173.1656 · median 167.1372
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lexi Doonan | |
| 2 | Josef Ulrich | |
| 3 | Juztine Sawyer | |
| 4 | Peter Ulrich | |
| 5 | Ethan Grob | |
| 6 | Levi Doonan | |
| 7 | Justin Sawyer | |
| 8 | Keenon Woodword | |
| 9 | Mia Howe | |
| 10 | Dyson Woodward |
Kids-Q — Kids Q 11-15
4 entries · top 144.0228 · median 135.7086
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brandon Johnson | |
| 2 | Gabriella Acosta | |
| 3 | Julie Rezac | |
| 4 | Joe Rezac |
Kids-Q — Kids Q 6-10
14 entries · top 171.9884 · median 168.5370
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anakin Cross | |
| 2 | Kayleigh McBreen | |
| 3 | Tylee Fluharty | |
| 4 | Treycin Mondragon | |
| 5 | Lola Fraser-Bailey | |
| 6 | Sawyer McBreen | |
| 7 | Makiya Mondranon | |
| 8 | James Garrison | |
| 9 | Alec McBride | |
| 10 | Jaelynn Bueno | |
| 11 | Matttison Alexander | |
| 12 | Tecoa Archuleta | |
| 13 | Ezyiel Archuleta | |
| 14 | Michael Antenen |