Aug 23–24, 2019 · Fort Payne, AL · 📍 151 18th St, NE
Prize money: $4,000
SWEET CHEEKS BBQ won Grand Champion at the Smoking for a Reason (BACKYARD ONLY) on August 23, 2019 in Fort Payne, AL at 151 18th St, NE, scoring 515.3716 in a field of 11 teams. DANG GOOD BBQ took Reserve Grand Champion with 512.4800. Category winners: Chicken — SWEET CHEEKS BBQ (176.5600); Pork Ribs — Thin Blue Swine (169.6800); Pork — HICKORY HANGOVER (175.4172).
Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.
Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
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.
SWEET CHEEKS BBQ took the title on 3 calls from 3 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was pork at 3rd.
| 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 |
11 entries · top 515.3716 · median 490.6968 · out of 540, not the usual 360
| # | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |