BBQ Fest Market Plaza
2026-07-12 · La Chorrera, PO · PANAMA · 📍 Market Plaza Costa Verde
Reps: ERNESTO URIBE, NATASHA LOEW
Grand Champion: Justice BBQ (676.5712) · 13 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Urban Smoke House
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How hot was the win?
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🧳 Out-of-towners took the title
Justice BBQ took the Grand Championship home to KS.
📸 Photo finishes
Chicken places 8–9: Holy Smoke and Fire Family BBQ PTY tied on 157.0856 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 8–9: Los Doctores del Grill and 88 BBQ tied on 153.6800 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 9–10: Fire Family BBQ PTY edged Lucky Three BBQ 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)
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 | 165.7484 | 159.9656 | 157.0740 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.1428 | 165.7028 | 153.0628 |
| Pork | 177.1428 | 166.2972 | 157.6912 |
| Brisket | 173.7256 | 163.4172 | 153.0856 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
13 entries · top 676.5712 · median 644.5140
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Justice BBQ | |
| 2 | Urban Smoke House | |
| 3 | Grill and Chill | |
| 4 | Fire Family BBQ PTY | |
| 5 | 88 BBQ | |
| 6 | Lucky Three BBQ | |
| 7 | Bros & Fire PTY | |
| 8 | BBQ Fellas | |
| 9 | Holy Smoke | |
| 10 | Mamba Smoke & Grill | |
| 11 | Los Doctores del Grill | |
| 12 | Bado BBQ | |
| 13 | El Diez |
Chicken
13 entries · top 165.7484 · median 158.2512
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bado BBQ | |
| 2 | Justice BBQ | |
| 3 | Bros & Fire PTY | |
| 4 | Urban Smoke House | |
| 5 | Grill and Chill | |
| 6 | 88 BBQ | |
| 7 | Mamba Smoke & Grill | |
| 8 | Holy Smoke | |
| 9 | Fire Family BBQ PTY | |
| 10 | Lucky Three BBQ | |
| 11 | El Diez | |
| 12 | BBQ Fellas | |
| 13 | Los Doctores del Grill |
Pork Ribs
13 entries · top 177.1428 · median 161.7372
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Justice BBQ | |
| 2 | Grill and Chill | |
| 3 | Urban Smoke House | |
| 4 | Fire Family BBQ PTY | |
| 5 | Lucky Three BBQ | |
| 6 | Bros & Fire PTY | |
| 7 | Mamba Smoke & Grill | |
| 8 | 88 BBQ | |
| 9 | BBQ Fellas | |
| 10 | Holy Smoke | |
| 11 | Los Doctores del Grill | |
| 12 | Bado BBQ | |
| 13 | El Diez |
Pork
13 entries · top 177.1428 · median 162.2860
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 88 BBQ | |
| 2 | Grill and Chill | |
| 3 | Urban Smoke House | |
| 4 | Justice BBQ | |
| 5 | Bros & Fire PTY | |
| 6 | Fire Family BBQ PTY | |
| 7 | Bado BBQ | |
| 8 | Mamba Smoke & Grill | |
| 9 | BBQ Fellas | |
| 10 | El Diez | |
| 11 | Holy Smoke | |
| 12 | Los Doctores del Grill | |
| 13 | Lucky Three BBQ |
Brisket
13 entries · top 173.7256 · median 161.1428
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lucky Three BBQ | |
| 2 | Urban Smoke House | |
| 3 | Justice BBQ | |
| 4 | BBQ Fellas | |
| 5 | Holy Smoke | |
| 6 | Grill and Chill | |
| 7 | Fire Family BBQ PTY | |
| 8 | Los Doctores del Grill | |
| 9 | 88 BBQ | |
| 10 | Bros & Fire PTY | |
| 11 | Mamba Smoke & Grill | |
| 12 | El Diez | |
| 13 | Bado 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 — Burger
4 entries · top 173.7256 · median 161.1542
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | El Diez | |
| 2 | Holy Smoke | |
| 3 | BBQ Fellas | |
| 4 | Bado BBQ |