Evansville BBQ
2019-08-16 – 2019-08-17 · Evansville, IN · 📍 Evansville, IN 47711 · State championship
Reps: JEANNE TITUS, TINA WELLER · Prize money: $5,000.00
Grand Champion: Janky Leg BBQ (691.9084) · 19 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 SCUFFLETOWN SMOKERS
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Tightest race
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How hot was the win?
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Storylines
🪒 A razor-thin finish
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.5944 points — closer than 86% of every championship in the data.
🧳 Out-of-towners took the title
JANKY LEG BBQ took the Grand Championship home to MO.
🧹 A double category winner
JANKY LEG BBQ won Pork, Brisket — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
📸 Photo finishes
Chicken places 8–9: JANKY LEG BBQ and OWENSBORO PORK PULLERS tied on 164.5256 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 3–4: CARROL LOU'S SMOKEHOUSE and JaBs BBQ tied on 174.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 1–2: JANKY LEG BBQ and Mid-West Coatings tied on 177.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
🃏 An upset on the books
JANKY LEG BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, Carrol Lou's Smokehouse, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 35-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)
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 177.7028 | 169.1316 | 163.3712 |
| Pork Ribs | 173.1200 | 168.5716 | 161.6800 |
| Pork | 177.7028 | 171.9772 | 165.1312 |
| Brisket | 177.7028 | 174.2856 | 163.9428 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
19 entries · top 691.9084 · median 647.8284
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | JANKY LEG BBQ | |
| 2 | SCUFFLETOWN SMOKERS | |
| 3 | LOCAL YOKELS BBQ | |
| 4 | CARROL LOU'S SMOKEHOUSE | |
| 5 | JaBs BBQ | |
| 6 | Mid-West Coatings | |
| 7 | Hickory Pit Stop | |
| 8 | OWENSBORO PORK PULLERS | |
| 9 | HOBBIE BAR-B-Q | |
| 10 | GE-QUE | |
| 11 | Z Smoke | |
| 12 | I'd Rather Be Fishing | |
| 13 | BUNNY'S BUTT SMOKERS | |
| 14 | SevenStitches BBQ | |
| 15 | Stone City Grill | |
| 16 | Just One | |
| 17 | Smoke In Da Eye | |
| 18 | Steve's Oink-N-Squeel BBQ | |
| 19 | Just Pork It BBQ |
Chicken
19 entries · top 177.7028 · median 163.3712
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CARROL LOU'S SMOKEHOUSE | |
| 2 | SCUFFLETOWN SMOKERS | |
| 3 | LOCAL YOKELS BBQ | |
| 4 | JaBs BBQ | |
| 5 | Mid-West Coatings | |
| 6 | Hickory Pit Stop | |
| 7 | Z Smoke | |
| 8 | JANKY LEG BBQ | |
| 9 | OWENSBORO PORK PULLERS | |
| 10 | I'd Rather Be Fishing | |
| 11 | GE-QUE | |
| 12 | SevenStitches BBQ | |
| 13 | Just One | |
| 14 | HOBBIE BAR-B-Q | |
| 15 | Steve's Oink-N-Squeel BBQ | |
| 16 | Stone City Grill | |
| 17 | BUNNY'S BUTT SMOKERS | |
| 18 | Smoke In Da Eye | |
| 19 | Just Pork It BBQ |
Pork Ribs
19 entries · top 173.1200 · median 161.6800
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SCUFFLETOWN SMOKERS | |
| 2 | BUNNY'S BUTT SMOKERS | |
| 3 | JANKY LEG BBQ | |
| 4 | LOCAL YOKELS BBQ | |
| 5 | Z Smoke | |
| 6 | I'd Rather Be Fishing | |
| 7 | Hickory Pit Stop | |
| 8 | GE-QUE | |
| 9 | Mid-West Coatings | |
| 10 | CARROL LOU'S SMOKEHOUSE | |
| 11 | JaBs BBQ | |
| 12 | HOBBIE BAR-B-Q | |
| 13 | OWENSBORO PORK PULLERS | |
| 14 | Stone City Grill | |
| 15 | Just One | |
| 16 | Just Pork It BBQ | |
| 17 | SevenStitches BBQ | |
| 18 | Steve's Oink-N-Squeel BBQ | |
| 19 | Smoke In Da Eye |
Pork
19 entries · top 177.7028 · median 165.1312
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | JANKY LEG BBQ | |
| 2 | SCUFFLETOWN SMOKERS | |
| 3 | CARROL LOU'S SMOKEHOUSE | |
| 4 | JaBs BBQ | |
| 5 | OWENSBORO PORK PULLERS | |
| 6 | LOCAL YOKELS BBQ | |
| 7 | Mid-West Coatings | |
| 8 | GE-QUE | |
| 9 | HOBBIE BAR-B-Q | |
| 10 | Smoke In Da Eye | |
| 11 | SevenStitches BBQ | |
| 12 | Z Smoke | |
| 13 | Hickory Pit Stop | |
| 14 | I'd Rather Be Fishing | |
| 15 | Just Pork It BBQ | |
| 16 | BUNNY'S BUTT SMOKERS | |
| 17 | Stone City Grill | |
| 18 | Steve's Oink-N-Squeel BBQ | |
| 19 | Just One |
Brisket
19 entries · top 177.7028 · median 163.9428
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | JANKY LEG BBQ | |
| 2 | Mid-West Coatings | |
| 3 | Hickory Pit Stop | |
| 4 | JaBs BBQ | |
| 5 | LOCAL YOKELS BBQ | |
| 6 | CARROL LOU'S SMOKEHOUSE | |
| 7 | SCUFFLETOWN SMOKERS | |
| 8 | OWENSBORO PORK PULLERS | |
| 9 | HOBBIE BAR-B-Q | |
| 10 | BUNNY'S BUTT SMOKERS | |
| 11 | I'd Rather Be Fishing | |
| 12 | SevenStitches BBQ | |
| 13 | GE-QUE | |
| 14 | Just One | |
| 15 | Z Smoke | |
| 16 | Stone City Grill | |
| 17 | Smoke In Da Eye | |
| 18 | Steve's Oink-N-Squeel BBQ | |
| 19 | Just Pork It BBQ |
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 — Cabo Wabo
5 entries · top 152.4800 · median 129.0744
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CARROL LOU'S SMOKEHOUSE | |
| 2 | Stone City Grill | |
| 3 | JANKY LEG BBQ | |
| 4 | Mid-West Coatings | |
| 5 | Hickory Pit Stop |