Burleigh BBQ Championships
2019-08-03 – 2019-08-04 · Queensland, 4220 · AUSTRALIA · 📍 Ed Hardy Park,North Burleigh Heads
Grand Champion: Smoke N Daggers BBQ (697.0856) · 32 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 The King and His Q
Entries
Top score
Winning margin
Field average
Perfect 180s
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
Field spread
Double threats
How hot was the win?
Form held
Field strength
Storylines
📸 Photo finishes
Master Series — Chicken places 2–3: The King and His Q and SMOKE N DAGGERS BBQ tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Master Series — Pork Ribs places 5–6: Blue Bird Crew and FASTLANE BBQ CREW tied on 172.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Master Series — Brisket places 9–10: Zed's Que and Bastie Boys Low and Slow tied on 167.9656 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
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)
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Master Series — Chicken | 177.7028 | 173.1200 | 169.7028 |
| Master Series — Pork Ribs | 179.4400 | 172.5600 | 169.7028 |
| Master Series — Pork | 176.0228 | 172.5484 | 167.9656 |
| Master Series — Brisket | 178.8572 | 173.1772 | 167.9656 |
| Open Comp — Brisket | 174.2856 | 168.5600 | 162.8572 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
32 entries · top 697.0856 · median 662.8288
Chicken
32 entries · top 177.7028 · median 166.8572
Pork Ribs
31 entries · top 179.4400 · median 166.8228
Pork
32 entries · top 176.0228 · median 163.7028
Brisket
31 entries · top 178.8572 · median 162.8344
Open Comp
Overall
32 entries · top 517.1312 · median 488.8454
Brisket
31 entries · top 174.2856 · median 157.1428
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.
Open Comp — Lamb
32 entries · top 173.1316 · median 164.5256
Open Comp — Seafood
30 entries · top 176.0344 · median 166.5772