Fifth Annual Kosher BBQ Championship (KOSHER SERIES)
2019-10-24 – 2019-10-27 · Dallas, TX · 📍 Coit & Spring Valley RD
Reps: DEBBIE SPRAY, SCOTT SPRAY · Prize money: $500.00
Grand Champion: House Divided (658.2740) · 11 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Savage Smoke
Entries
Top score
Winning margin
Field average
Perfect 180s
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
Field spread
Prize money
Double threats
Traveled in
Form held
Field strength
Storylines
🪒 A razor-thin finish
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.0224 points — closer than 96% of every championship in the data.
📸 Photo finishes
Brisket places 9–10: 5 Dudes and a Vegetarian and Green Family Camp tied on 143.9200 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 8–9: DFW Kosher Q Crew edged 99 Percent Kosher by 0.0800.
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 | 164.5600 | 157.2000 | 149.7028 |
| Pork Ribs | 172.0344 | 162.2400 | 151.9544 |
| Brisket | 175.4744 | 157.6688 | 143.9200 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Kosher Series
Overall
11 entries · top 658.2740 · median 630.3084
Chicken
11 entries · top 164.5600 · median 154.8344
Pork Ribs
11 entries · top 172.0344 · median 161.6572
Brisket
11 entries · top 175.4744 · median 151.9772
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.
Kosher Series — Turkey
11 entries · top 166.2856 · median 160.5828