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Fire In the Sky BBQ Lite'N Up Broadway (BACKYARD ONLY)

· Broadway Westville, NJ · 📍 Broadway Westville, NJ 08051

Reps: JEFF CHAMBERS, JOHN G BUSCH · Prize money: $4,850.00

Grand Champion: Nice Racks (326.2972) · 23 teams

Reserve Champion: 🥈 WD Pigs

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Nice Racks
326.2972 · Backyard Series — Overall
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WD Pigs
325.7028 · Backyard Series — Overall
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MRC Barbecue
322.7884 · Backyard Series — Overall

Entries

23
2 judged meats · 1 ancillary

Top score

326.2972

Winning margin

0.5944
GC over RC

Field average

300.66
median 300.57

Perfect 180s

0

Tightest race

Pork Ribs
7.4856 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

305.6000
10th place overall

Field spread

60.1488
winner to last place

Prize money

$4,850.00
on the line

Widest winning margin

Chicken
won by 2.8344 pts — MANHATTAN JACK'S BBQ

How hot was the win?

Top 99%
beats 1% of 708 Backyard Series wins in the data

Traveled in

52%
of the 23 teams with a home region came from outside NJ

Storylines

🪒 A razor-thin finish

The Grand Championship was decided by 0.5944 points — closer than 85% of every championship in the data.

📸 Photo finishes

Pork Ribs places 5–6: Weber's Backyard BBQ edged If You Got It Smoke It by 0.0460. Chicken places 5–6: No Worries BBQ edged Jack the Ribber by 0.4344. Chicken places 8–9: Poultrygeist edged Swine & Dine by 0.4572.

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)

Where the field came from (home regions on file)

What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)

Category1st5th10th
Chicken173.1544161.1316150.2972
Pork Ribs168.0456160.5600155.3828

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Backyard Series

Overall

23 entries · top 326.2972 · median 300.5716

#TeamScore
1 Nice Racks 326.2972
2 WD Pigs 325.7028
3 MRC Barbecue 322.7884
4 Zoni-Q 318.2628
5 MANHATTAN JACK'S BBQ 315.9544
6 The Fat is Where It's At 314.2744
7 Uncle Dubby's Backyard BBQ 311.4172
8 If You Got It Smoke It 309.6568
9 Weber's Backyard BBQ 308.4684
10 Poultrygeist 305.6000
11 Sauce Em & Toss Em BBQ 304.5144
12 No Worries BBQ 300.5716
13 southwood bbq 300.5256
14 RED SMOKE BAR-B-QUE 299.8512
15 Swine & Dine 296.0228
16 Grill Sargeants 293.2004
17 Southern Smoke 289.7148
18 Jack the Ribber 288.6400
19 Smoked Out 288.5716
20 Jersey Paul's BBQ 278.1944
21 DAMN THAT'S GOOD BBQ 277.1544
22 Brewski's BBQ Competition Team 273.6916
23 Too Many Cooks 266.1484

Chicken

23 entries · top 173.1544 · median 149.7144

#TeamScore
1 MANHATTAN JACK'S BBQ 173.1544
2 WD Pigs 170.3200
3 MRC Barbecue 163.3828
4 RED SMOKE BAR-B-QUE 162.8228
5 No Worries BBQ 161.1316
6 Jack the Ribber 160.6972
7 Nice Racks 158.8228
8 Poultrygeist 153.0628
9 Swine & Dine 152.6056
10 Uncle Dubby's Backyard BBQ 150.2972
11 Zoni-Q 150.2172
12 Brewski's BBQ Competition Team 149.7144
13 If You Got It Smoke It 149.1428
14 The Fat is Where It's At 148.5600
15 Weber's Backyard BBQ 147.9084
16 Smoked Out 146.8456
17 Grill Sargeants 146.2860
18 Sauce Em & Toss Em BBQ 146.2628
19 southwood bbq 143.9656
20 Jersey Paul's BBQ 142.8228
21 Too Many Cooks 142.8000
22 Southern Smoke 142.2516
23 DAMN THAT'S GOOD BBQ 132.5944

Pork Ribs

23 entries · top 168.0456 · median 147.4632

#TeamScore
1 Zoni-Q 168.0456
2 Nice Racks 167.4744
3 The Fat is Where It's At 165.7144
4 Uncle Dubby's Backyard BBQ 161.1200
5 Weber's Backyard BBQ 160.5600
6 If You Got It Smoke It 160.5140
7 MRC Barbecue 159.4056
8 Sauce Em & Toss Em BBQ 158.2516
9 southwood bbq 156.5600
10 WD Pigs 155.3828
11 Poultrygeist 152.5372
12 Southern Smoke 147.4632
13 Grill Sargeants 146.9144
14 DAMN THAT'S GOOD BBQ 144.5600
15 Swine & Dine 143.4172
16 MANHATTAN JACK'S BBQ 142.8000
17 Smoked Out 141.7260
18 No Worries BBQ 139.4400
19 RED SMOKE BAR-B-QUE 137.0284
20 Jersey Paul's BBQ 135.3716
21 Jack the Ribber 127.9428
22 Brewski's BBQ Competition Team 123.9772
23 Too Many Cooks 123.3484

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 — Taste Of Jersy

13 entries · top 172.0344 · median 158.3084

#TeamScore
1 No Worries BBQ 172.0344
2 Grill Sargeants 170.2628
3 RED SMOKE BAR-B-QUE 169.1428
4 Southern Smoke 165.2228
5 MANHATTAN JACK'S BBQ 163.4172
6 Jersey Paul's BBQ 161.1428
7 Too Many Cooks 158.3084
8 Poultrygeist 153.1200
9 MRC Barbecue 153.1200
10 DAMN THAT'S GOOD BBQ 148.5716
11 southwood bbq 147.9084
12 Weber's Backyard BBQ 147.3600
13 Sauce Em & Toss Em BBQ 138.2628

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