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Lassen Annual BBQ Cook-Off

2019-08-16 – 2019-08-17 · Susanville, CA · 📍 195 Russell Ave · State championship

Reps: IAN SCHMIDT, JULIE POE · Prize money: $10,000.00

Grand Champion: Cynical BBQ (675.9768) · 25 teams

Reserve Champion: 🥈 Smokey and the Pirate

🥇
675.9768 · Master Series — Overall
🥈
672.4572 · Master Series — Overall
🥉
671.3712 · Master Series — Overall

Entries

25
4 judged meats · 2 ancillary

Top score

675.9768

Winning margin

3.5196
GC over RC

Field average

642.01
median 647.82

Perfect 180s

0

Tightest race

Pork Ribs
2.8572 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

653.6000
10th place overall

Field spread

97.2680
winner to last place

Prize money

$10,000.00
on the line

Most consistent

avg finish 5.75 across 4 meats

Double threats

4
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Brisket
won by 9.6800 pts — BULL MARKET BBQ

How hot was the win?

Top 97%
beats 3% of 1951 Master Series wins in the data

Traveled in

12%
of the 25 teams with a home region came from outside CA

Form held

Moderate
ρ = -0.58 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1516
avg power rating going in · stronger than 21% of contests

Top-rated in the field

rated 1586 pre-contest

Storylines

🧹 A double category winner

CYNICAL BBQ won Chicken, Pork Ribs — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.

📸 Photo finishes

Pork Ribs places 1–2: CYNICAL BBQ and CANYON RIDERS BBQ tied on 170.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 2–3: CANYON RIDERS BBQ and Pirates of the Pig tied on 170.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 3–4: SMOKED SEDUCTION and Smokey and the Pirate tied on 171.9656 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.

🛡️ Back to defend

Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: BULL MARKET BBQ (won 2018).

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)

Where the field came from (home regions on file)

This contest over the years full contest page →

DateWhereVenueTeamsHigh scoreGrand ChampionReserve Champion
2018-08-17 195 Russell Ave 27 685.2344 BULL MARKET BBQ OLD TOWN FRANKLIN BBQ
2019-08-16 ← this one Susanville, CA 195 Russell Ave 25 675.9768 Cynical BBQ Smokey and the Pirate
2021-10-15 Susanville, CA 195 Russell Ave 11 678.2284 7 Sins BBQ KICKEN ASH AND MAKEN FLAMES

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

Category1st5th10th
Chicken175.4628169.6800164.5372
Pork Ribs170.8572168.0000162.8228
Pork176.0000171.4288165.7144
Brisket179.4400168.5600164.0000

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

25 entries · top 675.9768 · median 647.8172

#TeamScore
1 CYNICAL BBQ 675.9768
2 Smokey and the Pirate 672.4572
3 Pirates of the Pig 671.3712
4 BULL MARKET BBQ 669.0856
5 RIDGE ROUTE BOYS BBQ 663.4288
6 BAR-B-CUDA BBQ 661.0628
7 SMOKED SEDUCTION 655.9312
8 GIT-R-SMOKED 654.8112
9 THE SMOKING J'S 654.7544
10 OLD TOWN FRANKLIN BBQ 653.6000
11 ROYAL SMOKIN' HOT 653.0856
12 CANYON RIDERS BBQ 650.1824
13 PIGGY D'S BBQ 647.8172
14 SMOKIN' AXE BBQ 644.4916
15 THE CALIFORNIA GRILL BILLIES 642.0908
16 Fat Dad's Barbeque 641.5196
17 Saltworks BBQ 634.8228
18 Sierra Smoke Pit BBQ 632.9944
19 PRISON BREAK BBQ 632.5028
20 PETE'S MEAT BBQ 630.3088
21 BONE RUBBIN BBQ 622.1368
22 Legal Eagles BBQ 607.3600
23 We Be Smokin' BBQ 602.7884
24 Old Mill Eatery & BBQ 596.9712
25 JC'S SMOKING HOT GRILL 578.7088

Chicken

25 entries · top 175.4628 · median 161.1084

#TeamScore
1 CYNICAL BBQ 175.4628
2 PIGGY D'S BBQ 172.5600
3 BAR-B-CUDA BBQ 170.2856
4 Smokey and the Pirate 170.2744
5 THE CALIFORNIA GRILL BILLIES 169.6800
6 Pirates of the Pig 168.5828
7 RIDGE ROUTE BOYS BBQ 168.5372
8 ROYAL SMOKIN' HOT 167.9884
9 Fat Dad's Barbeque 166.8456
10 THE SMOKING J'S 164.5372
11 GIT-R-SMOKED 162.8800
12 PRISON BREAK BBQ 162.2744
13 SMOKED SEDUCTION 161.1084
14 BULL MARKET BBQ 160.5716
15 OLD TOWN FRANKLIN BBQ 159.9544
16 PETE'S MEAT BBQ 159.4172
17 CANYON RIDERS BBQ 156.5256
18 SMOKIN' AXE BBQ 153.7144
19 Sierra Smoke Pit BBQ 153.6800
20 Legal Eagles BBQ 151.4400
21 Saltworks BBQ 148.5600
22 JC'S SMOKING HOT GRILL 148.5600
23 BONE RUBBIN BBQ 147.9312
24 We Be Smokin' BBQ 146.8116
25 Old Mill Eatery & BBQ 139.3484

Pork Ribs

25 entries · top 170.8572 · median 161.1772

#TeamScore
1 CYNICAL BBQ 170.8572
2 CANYON RIDERS BBQ 170.8572
3 Pirates of the Pig 170.8572
4 Sierra Smoke Pit BBQ 168.5716
5 PRISON BREAK BBQ 168.0000
6 BULL MARKET BBQ 166.2856
7 SMOKIN' AXE BBQ 164.5600
8 RIDGE ROUTE BOYS BBQ 164.0116
9 GIT-R-SMOKED 163.9772
10 Fat Dad's Barbeque 162.8228
11 BONE RUBBIN BBQ 161.6800
12 Smokey and the Pirate 161.6572
13 PETE'S MEAT BBQ 161.1772
14 Saltworks BBQ 161.1428
15 THE CALIFORNIA GRILL BILLIES 159.4056
16 OLD TOWN FRANKLIN BBQ 158.2284
17 ROYAL SMOKIN' HOT 157.6800
18 BAR-B-CUDA BBQ 157.6800
19 PIGGY D'S BBQ 157.0856
20 SMOKED SEDUCTION 156.0000
21 Old Mill Eatery & BBQ 155.3828
22 Legal Eagles BBQ 154.2628
23 THE SMOKING J'S 152.5144
24 We Be Smokin' BBQ 145.6800
25 JC'S SMOKING HOT GRILL 137.6688

Pork

25 entries · top 176.0000 · median 164.5372

#TeamScore
1 ROYAL SMOKIN' HOT 176.0000
2 PIGGY D'S BBQ 175.4172
3 SMOKED SEDUCTION 171.9656
4 Smokey and the Pirate 171.9656
5 BAR-B-CUDA BBQ 171.4288
6 GIT-R-SMOKED 171.4056
7 CYNICAL BBQ 169.1084
8 THE SMOKING J'S 168.0000
9 RIDGE ROUTE BOYS BBQ 166.8800
10 OLD TOWN FRANKLIN BBQ 165.7144
11 CANYON RIDERS BBQ 165.1084
12 Sierra Smoke Pit BBQ 165.0972
13 SMOKIN' AXE BBQ 164.5372
14 Pirates of the Pig 164.5256
15 BULL MARKET BBQ 162.7884
16 THE CALIFORNIA GRILL BILLIES 162.2284
17 Legal Eagles BBQ 160.5372
18 PRISON BREAK BBQ 159.4172
19 We Be Smokin' BBQ 157.7256
20 Saltworks BBQ 157.1200
21 JC'S SMOKING HOT GRILL 153.6800
22 Old Mill Eatery & BBQ 149.6572
23 Fat Dad's Barbeque 147.9084
24 BONE RUBBIN BBQ 146.8228
25 PETE'S MEAT BBQ 139.9544

Brisket

25 entries · top 179.4400 · median 161.6684

#TeamScore
1 BULL MARKET BBQ 179.4400
2 PETE'S MEAT BBQ 169.7600
3 THE SMOKING J'S 169.7028
4 OLD TOWN FRANKLIN BBQ 169.7028
5 Smokey and the Pirate 168.5600
6 Saltworks BBQ 168.0000
7 Pirates of the Pig 167.4056
8 SMOKED SEDUCTION 166.8572
9 BONE RUBBIN BBQ 165.7028
10 RIDGE ROUTE BOYS BBQ 164.0000
11 Fat Dad's Barbeque 163.9428
12 SMOKIN' AXE BBQ 161.6800
13 BAR-B-CUDA BBQ 161.6684
14 CYNICAL BBQ 160.5484
15 CANYON RIDERS BBQ 157.6912
16 GIT-R-SMOKED 156.5484
17 Old Mill Eatery & BBQ 152.5828
18 We Be Smokin' BBQ 152.5712
19 ROYAL SMOKIN' HOT 151.4172
20 THE CALIFORNIA GRILL BILLIES 150.7768
21 Sierra Smoke Pit BBQ 145.6456
22 PRISON BREAK BBQ 142.8112
23 PIGGY D'S BBQ 142.7544
24 Legal Eagles BBQ 141.1200
25 JC'S SMOKING HOT GRILL 138.8000

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 — Kids-Q 11-17

2 entries · top 164.5484 · median 162.5542

#TeamScore
1 Cheer-N BBQ 164.5484
2 We Be Smoking BBQ 160.5600

Kids-Q — Kids-Q 6-10

4 entries · top 175.4172 · median 171.1314

#TeamScore
1 Seth's World BBQ 175.4172
2 Little Man BBQ 171.9656
3 Meat It Up! Up! Up! 170.2972
4 T-Rex 167.9772

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