2020-09-19 – 2020-09-20 · Shawnee, OK · 📍 1700 S Gordon Cooper Dr · State championship
Reps: BOB MCKINNON, KAREN JANE WILLIAMS, RALPH WILLIAMS, SCOTT GRINSTEAD, STEVE GRINSTEAD, TERRI MCKINNON · Prize money: $15,000.00
Grand Champion: RUB MY RACK (698.8688) · 56 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 PETIE'S SMOKIN PITS 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 96% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.0576 points — closer than 96% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 77 times in 100
RUB MY RACK came in rated below the field's top team, BOOMERANG BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 23-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
RUB MY RACK won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 2 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.
4 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 4.0572 points — 2 teams sat within a single point of the lead.
Stronger than 99% of every rated contest
The field averaged a 1685 power rating going in — stronger than 99% of every contest tracked.
Chicken places 3–4: Chingon BBQ and Scooter's BBQ tied on 177.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 4–5: Scooter's BBQ and Bushmaster BBQ tied on 177.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 6–7: GRINDERS BBQ KANSAS CITY and LA PASADITA tied on 177.1428 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
B-S BBQ OUTLAWS won Pork Ribs, Pork — a double.
Bigger than 90% of the 5,410 contests in the data
56 teams made this a bigger field than 90% of every contest tracked.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 177.7028 | 176.0000 |
| Pork Ribs | 178.2972 | 175.4172 | 174.3088 |
| Pork | 177.7144 | 175.4172 | 174.8572 |
| Brisket | 180.0000 | 177.7144 | 175.4400 |
56 entries · top 698.8688 · median 680.5086
56 entries · top 180.0000 · median 172.5600 · 🔥 perfect 180
56 entries · top 178.2972 · median 168.5600
56 entries · top 177.7144 · median 170.8458
56 entries · top 180.0000 · median 169.4000 · 🔥 perfect 180