Smoking for a Reason(BACKYARD ONLY)
2019-08-23 – 2019-08-24 · Fort Payne, AL · 📍 151 18th St, NE
Prize money: $4,000.00
Grand Champion: Sweet Cheeks (515.3716) · 11 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 DANG GOOD BBQ
Entries
11
3 judged meats
Top score
515.3716
Winning margin
2.8916
GC over RC
Field average
491.73
median 490.70
Perfect 180s
0
Tightest race
Pork Ribs
3.4400 pts across the top 5
Top-10 cutoff
471.8740
10th place overall
Field spread
47.4744
winner to last place
Prize money
$4,000.00
on the line
Double threats
4
teams with 2+ top-5 calls
How hot was the win?
Top 13%
beats 87% of 708 Backyard Series wins in the data
Traveled in
0%
of the 11 teams with a home region came from outside AL
Form held
Moderate
ρ = -0.4 between pre-contest rating and finish
Field strength
1523
avg power rating going in · stronger than 28% of contests
Storylines
📸 Photo finishes
Pork Ribs places 6–7: Kicking Ash and HICKORY HANGOVER tied on 165.1316 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 8–9: Stacks and Lookout Smoke tied on 159.9544 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 3–4: PERFECTLY BLENDED edged BubbaQ by 0.0116.
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)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 176.5600 | 168.5256 | 155.9200 |
| Pork Ribs | 169.6800 | 166.2400 | 153.0628 |
| Pork | 175.4172 | 165.7028 | 159.3484 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Backyard Series
Overall
11 entries · top 515.3716 · median 490.6968
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SWEET CHEEKS BBQ | |
| 2 | DANG GOOD BBQ | |
| 3 | HICKORY HANGOVER | |
| 4 | Thin Blue Swine | |
| 5 | PERFECTLY BLENDED | |
| 6 | BubbaQ | |
| 7 | Dixie Pigs & Chick's BBQ Team | |
| 8 | Lookout Smoke | |
| 9 | Kicking Ash | |
| 10 | Abbidale's | |
| 11 | Stacks |
Chicken
11 entries · top 176.5600 · median 166.8228
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SWEET CHEEKS BBQ | |
| 2 | Lookout Smoke | |
| 3 | Dixie Pigs & Chick's BBQ Team | |
| 4 | DANG GOOD BBQ | |
| 5 | Thin Blue Swine | |
| 6 | HICKORY HANGOVER | |
| 7 | Abbidale's | |
| 8 | PERFECTLY BLENDED | |
| 9 | BubbaQ | |
| 10 | Kicking Ash | |
| 11 | Stacks |
Pork Ribs
11 entries · top 169.6800 · median 165.1316
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thin Blue Swine | |
| 2 | SWEET CHEEKS BBQ | |
| 3 | PERFECTLY BLENDED | |
| 4 | BubbaQ | |
| 5 | DANG GOOD BBQ | |
| 6 | Kicking Ash | |
| 7 | HICKORY HANGOVER | |
| 8 | Stacks | |
| 9 | Lookout Smoke | |
| 10 | Dixie Pigs & Chick's BBQ Team | |
| 11 | Abbidale's |
Pork
11 entries · top 175.4172 · median 165.0856
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | HICKORY HANGOVER | |
| 2 | DANG GOOD BBQ | |
| 3 | SWEET CHEEKS BBQ | |
| 4 | PERFECTLY BLENDED | |
| 5 | Abbidale's | |
| 6 | BubbaQ | |
| 7 | Stacks | |
| 8 | Kicking Ash | |
| 9 | Dixie Pigs & Chick's BBQ Team | |
| 10 | Thin Blue Swine | |
| 11 | Lookout Smoke |