2026-07-24 – 2026-07-25 · Emmetsburg, IA · 📍 2101 Madison Street · State championship
Reps: CINDY JUHL, TOM JUHL · Prize money: $5,000.00
Grand Champion: Nectar of the Hogs (705.6916) · 17 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Big Racks BBQ
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.
Closer than 90% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.5716 points — closer than 90% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 73 times in 100
NECTAR OF THE HOGS came in rated below the field's top team, HOT DADDY'S BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 27-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Nectar of the Hogs won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 4 calls from 4 boards, best of them 4th. Consistency beat fireworks.
6 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
First to fifth in the overall standings covered just 2.8800 points — 2 teams sat within a single point of the lead.
Chicken places 1–2: BQ Pit Bros and Matty Macks tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 2–3: Matty Macks and Never Easy BBQ tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 3–4: Never Easy BBQ and Big Racks BBQ tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
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 | 180.0000 | 178.8572 | 176.5600 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.7028 | 175.4172 | 170.8688 |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 177.7028 | 171.9772 |
| Brisket | 180.0000 | 175.4172 | 171.9772 |
17 entries · top 705.6916 · median 695.3368
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nectar of the Hogs | |
| 2 | Big Racks BBQ | |
| 3 | Matty Macks | |
| 4 | Smokey D's Wannabee's | |
| 5 | Sugar Shack | |
| 6 | Hot Daddy's BBQ | |
| 7 | Shiggin & Grinnin | |
| 8 | Wags Backywoods BBQ | |
| 9 | Team Crawford | |
| 10 | Never Easy BBQ | |
| 11 | BUCKSHOTBBQ | |
| 12 | Dry to Da Bone | |
| 13 | Daddy Dutch BBQ | |
| 14 | BQ Pit Bros | |
| 15 | T-Rex BBQ | |
| 16 | Bucknutz BBQ | |
| 17 | Benz Q |
17 entries · top 180.0000 · median 176.5600 · 🔥 perfect 180
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BQ Pit Bros | |
| 2 | Matty Macks | |
| 3 | Never Easy BBQ | |
| 4 | Big Racks BBQ | |
| 5 | Dry to Da Bone | |
| 6 | Wags Backywoods BBQ | |
| 7 | BUCKSHOTBBQ | |
| 8 | Shiggin & Grinnin | |
| 9 | T-Rex BBQ | |
| 10 | Nectar of the Hogs | |
| 11 | Smokey D's Wannabee's | |
| 12 | Hot Daddy's BBQ | |
| 13 | Sugar Shack | |
| 14 | Benz Q | |
| 15 | Daddy Dutch BBQ | |
| 16 | Bucknutz BBQ | |
| 17 | Team Crawford |
17 entries · top 177.7028 · median 171.9772
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wags Backywoods BBQ | |
| 2 | Sugar Shack | |
| 3 | Team Crawford | |
| 4 | Smokey D's Wannabee's | |
| 5 | Hot Daddy's BBQ | |
| 6 | Nectar of the Hogs | |
| 7 | BUCKSHOTBBQ | |
| 8 | Daddy Dutch BBQ | |
| 9 | BQ Pit Bros | |
| 10 | Matty Macks | |
| 11 | Dry to Da Bone | |
| 12 | Never Easy BBQ | |
| 13 | Shiggin & Grinnin | |
| 14 | Big Racks BBQ | |
| 15 | T-Rex BBQ | |
| 16 | Benz Q | |
| 17 | Bucknutz BBQ |
17 entries · top 180.0000 · median 173.1200 · 🔥 perfect 180
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big Racks BBQ | |
| 2 | Team Crawford | |
| 3 | Sugar Shack | |
| 4 | Nectar of the Hogs | |
| 5 | Shiggin & Grinnin | |
| 6 | Smokey D's Wannabee's | |
| 7 | Hot Daddy's BBQ | |
| 8 | Bucknutz BBQ | |
| 9 | Wags Backywoods BBQ | |
| 10 | Matty Macks | |
| 11 | Benz Q | |
| 12 | Dry to Da Bone | |
| 13 | Daddy Dutch BBQ | |
| 14 | BQ Pit Bros | |
| 15 | Never Easy BBQ | |
| 16 | BUCKSHOTBBQ | |
| 17 | T-Rex BBQ |
17 entries · top 180.0000 · median 171.9772 · 🔥 perfect 180
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matty Macks | |
| 2 | Big Racks BBQ | |
| 3 | Daddy Dutch BBQ | |
| 4 | Nectar of the Hogs | |
| 5 | BUCKSHOTBBQ | |
| 6 | Smokey D's Wannabee's | |
| 7 | T-Rex BBQ | |
| 8 | Never Easy BBQ | |
| 9 | Sugar Shack | |
| 10 | Dry to Da Bone | |
| 11 | Team Crawford | |
| 12 | Shiggin & Grinnin | |
| 13 | Hot Daddy's BBQ | |
| 14 | Bucknutz BBQ | |
| 15 | Wags Backywoods BBQ | |
| 16 | Benz Q | |
| 17 | BQ Pit Bros |