· Kansas City, MO · 📍 Holmes Drywall BBQ Contest
Reps: ALFRED T BOWEN, FRAN BOWEN · Prize money: $750.00
Grand Champion: Love 2 Q (705.0972) · 6 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Rubbing Butts BBQ Team
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.
LOVE 2 Q holds the KCBS record for highest backyard overall score — 705.0972 Backyard Series, out of 360, won the board, set right here. 2 all-time records in the book were set at this contest.
LOVE 2 Q won Chicken, Pork Ribs, Pork, Brisket — a clean sweep of the meats, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
Wider than 100% of the 713 championships in the data
The champion won by 28.5028 points — a wider margin than 100% of championships in the data.
Brisket places 4–5: Ditch Pickle BBQ and Blowin Smoke tied on 154.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
LOVE 2 Q took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 4 outright wins — their weakest board was chicken at 1st.
1 perfect 180 was scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
What happened at this contest that stands in the all-time KCBS record book. A gold line is a record nobody has beaten.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 175.4172 | 164.5944 | — |
| Pork Ribs | 177.7028 | 161.7488 | — |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 161.1316 | — |
| Brisket | 171.9772 | 154.8572 | — |
6 entries · top 705.0972 · median 655.1660
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LOVE 2 Q | |
| 2 | Rubbing Butts BBQ Team | |
| 3 | WQ Crew | |
| 4 | Blowin Smoke | |
| 5 | Heavy D's BBQ | |
| 6 | Ditch Pickle BBQ |
6 entries · top 175.4172 · median 168.3086
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LOVE 2 Q | |
| 2 | WQ Crew | |
| 3 | Rubbing Butts BBQ Team | |
| 4 | Ditch Pickle BBQ | |
| 5 | Blowin Smoke | |
| 6 | Heavy D's BBQ |
6 entries · top 177.7028 · median 165.6916
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LOVE 2 Q | |
| 2 | Heavy D's BBQ | |
| 3 | Rubbing Butts BBQ Team | |
| 4 | Blowin Smoke | |
| 5 | WQ Crew | |
| 6 | Ditch Pickle BBQ |
6 entries · top 180.0000 · median 165.1314 · 🔥 perfect 180
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LOVE 2 Q | |
| 2 | Rubbing Butts BBQ Team | |
| 3 | WQ Crew | |
| 4 | Heavy D's BBQ | |
| 5 | Blowin Smoke | |
| 6 | Ditch Pickle BBQ |
6 entries · top 171.9772 · median 158.2914
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LOVE 2 Q | |
| 2 | WQ Crew | |
| 3 | Rubbing Butts BBQ Team | |
| 4 | Ditch Pickle BBQ | |
| 5 | Blowin Smoke | |
| 6 | Heavy D's BBQ |
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.
6 entries · top 175.4056 · median 174.3028
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LOVE 2 Q | |
| 2 | Blowin Smoke | |
| 3 | WQ Crew | |
| 4 | Rubbing Butts BBQ Team | |
| 5 | Heavy D's BBQ | |
| 6 | Ditch Pickle BBQ |