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Spring Valley Tailgate & BBQ Festival (BACKYARD ONLY)

· Spring Valley, CA · 📍 8910 Troy Street

Reps: KATHLEEN MCINTOSH, KELLY MCINTOSH · Prize money: $1,300.00

Grand Champion: BZ Fuss (334.2056) · 20 teams

Reserve Champion: 🥈 Heftyboy BBQ

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334.2056 · Backyard Series — Overall
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331.4512 · Backyard Series — Overall
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331.4284 · Backyard Series — Overall

The contest at a glance (read off the scored boards)

How the field scored

Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.

How the meats cooked

Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.

  • Chicken 174.29
  • Pork Ribs 177.70
118.85 177.70

Entries

20
2 judged meats · 2 ancillary

Top score

334.2056

Winning margin

2.7544
GC over RC

Field average

299.89
118.85334.21
median 309.43 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

0

Tightest race

Chicken
5.1200 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

310.3772
118.85334.21
10th place overall

Field spread

215.3600
winner to last place

Prize money

$1,300.00
on the line

Widest winning margin

Pork Ribs
won by 9.1544 pts — JOHNS SWEETFIRE BBQ

How hot was the win?

Top 95%
beats 5% of 713 Backyard Series wins in the data

Storylines (1 found in this contest's numbers)

Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.

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)

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

Category1st5th10th
Chicken174.2856169.1656158.7884
Pork Ribs177.7028164.5600154.2516

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Backyard Series

Overall

20 entries · top 334.2056 · median 309.4344

#TeamScore
1 BZ Fuss 334.2056
2 Heftyboy BBQ 331.4512
3 JOHNS SWEETFIRE BBQ 331.4284
4 Big John Brand 327.3940
5 Cook's Cookin' 322.8112
6 Maynard's BBQ 321.0856
7 BENICKS BBQ 319.9772
8 Soak N Smoke BBQ 319.9200
9 Double D's BBQ 313.0400
10 BBQ Junkies 310.3772
11 Jer's All American BBQ 308.4916
12 Cask & Que 307.5204
13 Eat_A_Cow 304.0000
14 Narwhal BBQ 303.3940
15 Char BBQ 301.1200
16 Grillfellas BBQ 300.0228
17 BarrelmanBBQ 288.4568
18 Suds and Smoke 274.1028
19 Up in Smoke BBQ 260.0684
20 Smokin Jay's Bartz-B-Que 118.8456

Chicken

20 entries · top 174.2856 · median 157.6570

#TeamScore
1 Maynard's BBQ 174.2856
2 BZ Fuss 172.5484
3 Soak N Smoke BBQ 170.2628
4 BENICKS BBQ 169.7028
5 BBQ Junkies 169.1656
6 Heftyboy BBQ 162.9256
7 Narwhal BBQ 160.0228
8 Jer's All American BBQ 159.9544
9 Big John Brand 158.8456
10 Double D's BBQ 158.7884
11 Cook's Cookin' 156.5256
12 JOHNS SWEETFIRE BBQ 153.7256
13 Cask & Que 148.6860
14 Eat_A_Cow 148.0572
15 Suds and Smoke 142.7888
16 BarrelmanBBQ 142.7884
17 Grillfellas BBQ 141.1656
18 Char BBQ 136.5600
19 Up in Smoke BBQ 124.5372
20 Smokin Jay's Bartz-B-Que 118.8456

Pork Ribs

19 entries · top 177.7028 · median 154.2516

#TeamScore
1 JOHNS SWEETFIRE BBQ 177.7028
2 Big John Brand 168.5484
3 Heftyboy BBQ 168.5256
4 Cook's Cookin' 166.2856
5 Char BBQ 164.5600
6 BZ Fuss 161.6572
7 Grillfellas BBQ 158.8572
8 Cask & Que 158.8344
9 Eat_A_Cow 155.9428
10 Double D's BBQ 154.2516
11 BENICKS BBQ 150.2744
12 Soak N Smoke BBQ 149.6572
13 Jer's All American BBQ 148.5372
14 Maynard's BBQ 146.8000
15 BarrelmanBBQ 145.6684
16 Narwhal BBQ 143.3712
17 BBQ Junkies 141.2116
18 Up in Smoke BBQ 135.5312
19 Suds and Smoke 131.3140

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 — Carne Asada

18 entries · top 172.5828 · median 152.0400

#TeamScore
1 Eat_A_Cow 172.5828
2 Jer's All American BBQ 167.4172
3 Up in Smoke BBQ 165.2000
4 BarrelmanBBQ 162.8456
5 BENICKS BBQ 162.8112
6 Grillfellas BBQ 159.4744
7 JOHNS SWEETFIRE BBQ 154.8112
8 Cook's Cookin' 153.2344
9 Suds and Smoke 152.6400
10 BZ Fuss 151.4400
11 Heftyboy BBQ 148.5372
12 Char BBQ 147.3828
13 Smokin Jay's Bartz-B-Que 146.2972
14 Double D's BBQ 145.7140
15 Soak N Smoke BBQ 143.4740
16 Narwhal BBQ 141.6684
17 BBQ Junkies 139.9544
18 Big John Brand 129.6572

Ancillary — Tri-Tip

20 entries · top 174.3200 · median 152.3486

#TeamScore
1 BarrelmanBBQ 174.3200
2 Cask & Que 172.5944
3 Big John Brand 163.4744
4 Char BBQ 157.1428
5 Suds and Smoke 157.1200
6 Jer's All American BBQ 157.0744
7 Heftyboy BBQ 156.5600
8 Smokin Jay's Bartz-B-Que 155.4056
9 Up in Smoke BBQ 154.2512
10 BENICKS BBQ 153.7488
11 Double D's BBQ 150.9484
12 Eat_A_Cow 150.8460
13 Narwhal BBQ 149.7028
14 Cook's Cookin' 143.4056
15 JOHNS SWEETFIRE BBQ 140.0000
16 Grillfellas BBQ 131.3600
17 Maynard's BBQ 130.7884
18 Soak N Smoke BBQ 129.1888
19 BBQ Junkies 129.0512
20 BZ Fuss 105.7600

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