2019-09-20 – 2019-09-21 · Owensboro, KY · 📍 7301 Hobbs RD · State championship
Prize money: $9,000.00
Grand Champion: Scuffletown Smokers (700.5488) · 34 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 WEQ4U
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.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 70 times in 100
SCUFFLETOWN SMOKERS came in rated below the field's top team, GREY STREET BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 30-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Chicken places 4–5: EXTRA MILE BBQ and SCUFFLETOWN SMOKERS tied on 174.8456 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 5–6: EXTRA MILE BBQ and WARREN COUNTY PORK CHOPPERS tied on 173.1200 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 9–10: LOCAL YOKELS BBQ edged Butts-N-Racks BBQ by 0.0116.
SCUFFLETOWN SMOKERS took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was chicken at 5th.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-20 ← this one | Owensboro, KY | 7301 Hobbs RD | 34 | 700.5488 | Scuffletown Smokers | WEQ4U |
| 2020-09-18 | Owensboro, KY | — | — | — | — | — |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 176.5600 | 174.8456 | 171.9656 |
| Pork Ribs | 174.2744 | 173.1200 | 170.2744 |
| Pork | 177.1772 | 174.2744 | 170.2628 |
| Brisket | 177.7144 | 173.7028 | 169.1772 |
34 entries · top 700.5488 · median 665.3370
34 entries · top 176.5600 · median 168.8286
34 entries · top 174.2744 · median 167.1086
34 entries · top 177.1772 · median 163.3942
34 entries · top 177.7144 · median 163.9714