2020-07-30 – 2020-07-31 · Blairstown, NJ · 📍 Triple Brook Camping Resort
Reps: ALEX JR BROWN, LOUISE WEIDNER
Grand Champion: Piggin' Whiskey (682.1596) · 18 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 SMOKIN' TEX 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 93% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.5368 points — closer than 93% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 79 times in 100
Piggin' Whiskey came in rated below the field's top team, WOLF'S REVENGE BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 21-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Stronger than 100% of every rated contest
The field averaged a 1701 power rating going in — stronger than 100% of every contest tracked.
Pork Ribs places 2–3: OLD VIRGINIA SMOKE and SHORTSVILLE SMOKERS tied on 170.2744 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 8–9: A MAZIE Q and DANTE'S INFERNO tied on 166.8228 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 8–9: SHORTSVILLE SMOKERS and GOOD GOOGLY GOO BBQ tied on 167.9884 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
PIGGIN' WHISKEY took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was brisket at 10th.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 176.5944 | 173.7028 | 169.6684 |
| Pork Ribs | 171.9656 | 169.1200 | 164.0116 |
| Pork | 176.5600 | 169.1544 | 165.6800 |
| Brisket | 177.7144 | 169.1200 | 164.5256 |
18 entries · top 682.1596 · median 668.7428
18 entries · top 176.5944 · median 169.9828
18 entries · top 171.9656 · median 165.4172
18 entries · top 176.5600 · median 166.8342
18 entries · top 177.7144 · median 164.8114