2019-10-11 – 2019-10-12 · Butler, AL · 📍 222 S Mulberry
Reps: JANET APPLETON, SAM APPLETON · Prize money: $3,600.00
Grand Champion: Ground Hog Smokers (345.7028) · 20 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Beachin Good Barbecue
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 66 times in 100
Groundhog Smokers came in rated below the field's top team, Sweet Cheeks BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 34-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
This was Ground Hog Smokers's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 6th tracked contest.
Chicken places 7–8: Bama-Que and RIBLIFE tied on 166.8228 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 6–7: Beachin Good Barbecue edged Bama-Que by 0.0228. Pork Ribs places 5–6: PERFECTLY BLENDED edged Team Ballinger by 0.0344.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 174.2628 | 169.7028 | 161.0856 |
| Pork Ribs | 176.5600 | 170.2972 | 163.9888 |
20 entries · top 345.7028 · median 320.2972
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ground Hog Smokers | |
| 2 | Beachin Good Barbecue | |
| 3 | Team Ballinger | |
| 4 | FLAPS UP BBQ | |
| 5 | SWEET CHEEKS BBQ | |
| 6 | Bama-Que | |
| 7 | RIBLIFE | |
| 8 | Jaxson Brown BBQ | |
| 9 | PERFECTLY BLENDED | |
| 10 | Pipeline Pit Krew | |
| 11 | BuddyQ | |
| 12 | HOLD FAST BBQ | |
| 13 | Southern Comfort | |
| 14 | Georgia Pacific | |
| 15 | TnT BBQ | |
| 16 | BUTTS & BONES BBQ | |
| 17 | Blended Family BBQ | |
| 18 | Sneaky Creek | |
| 19 | Lee & Reed BBQ Team | |
| 20 | Heavyweights BBQ |
20 entries · top 174.2628 · median 160.8342
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | FLAPS UP BBQ | |
| 2 | Pipeline Pit Krew | |
| 3 | SWEET CHEEKS BBQ | |
| 4 | Ground Hog Smokers | |
| 5 | Team Ballinger | |
| 6 | Beachin Good Barbecue | |
| 7 | Bama-Que | |
| 8 | RIBLIFE | |
| 9 | HOLD FAST BBQ | |
| 10 | PERFECTLY BLENDED | |
| 11 | Blended Family BBQ | |
| 12 | BUTTS & BONES BBQ | |
| 13 | Southern Comfort | |
| 14 | Jaxson Brown BBQ | |
| 15 | Sneaky Creek | |
| 16 | BuddyQ | |
| 17 | Lee & Reed BBQ Team | |
| 18 | Georgia Pacific | |
| 19 | TnT BBQ | |
| 20 | Heavyweights BBQ |
20 entries · top 176.5600 · median 160.5600
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jaxson Brown BBQ | |
| 2 | Ground Hog Smokers | |
| 3 | Beachin Good Barbecue | |
| 4 | Bama-Que | |
| 5 | PERFECTLY BLENDED | |
| 6 | Team Ballinger | |
| 7 | RIBLIFE | |
| 8 | SWEET CHEEKS BBQ | |
| 9 | BuddyQ | |
| 10 | FLAPS UP BBQ | |
| 11 | Southern Comfort | |
| 12 | Georgia Pacific | |
| 13 | HOLD FAST BBQ | |
| 14 | TnT BBQ | |
| 15 | Pipeline Pit Krew | |
| 16 | BUTTS & BONES BBQ | |
| 17 | Blended Family BBQ | |
| 18 | Sneaky Creek | |
| 19 | Lee & Reed BBQ Team | |
| 20 | Heavyweights 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.
18 entries · top 177.7028 · median 171.9770
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | FLAPS UP BBQ | |
| 2 | Ground Hog Smokers | |
| 3 | RIBLIFE | |
| 4 | BuddyQ | |
| 5 | SWEET CHEEKS BBQ | |
| 6 | Sneaky Creek | |
| 7 | Southern Comfort | |
| 8 | Beachin Good Barbecue | |
| 9 | Bama-Que | |
| 10 | HOLD FAST BBQ | |
| 11 | PERFECTLY BLENDED | |
| 12 | Georgia Pacific | |
| 13 | BUTTS & BONES BBQ | |
| 14 | Blended Family BBQ | |
| 15 | Team Ballinger | |
| 16 | Pipeline Pit Krew | |
| 17 | Heavyweights BBQ | |
| 18 | Jaxson Brown BBQ |