Red White & Que: Day 1 CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES
2020-10-16 – 2020-10-17 · Jackson, NJ · 📍 Butterfly Camping Resort · State championship
Reps: ALEX JR BROWN, LOUISE WEIDNER · Prize money: $6,010.00
Grand Champion: Fire At the End of the Day (693.6572) · 37 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 DRILLING & GRILLING
Entries
Top score
Winning margin
Field average
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
Field spread
Prize money
Double threats
How hot was the win?
Traveled in
Came back for more
Form held
Field strength
Storylines
💪 A statement win
The champion won by 9.7144 points — a wider margin than 89% of championships in the data.
📸 Photo finishes
Chicken places 2–3: FIRE AT THE END OF THE DAY and BOGGS HOG BBQ tied on 177.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 7–8: BLUE & GRAY BBQ and SMOKIN' TEX BBQ tied on 174.2744 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 4–5: INSANE SWINE BBQ and SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA tied on 173.1200 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
🃏 An upset on the books
FIRE AT THE END OF THE DAY came in rated below the field's top team, Uncle Pig's Barbeque Pit, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 33-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
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)
This contest over the years full contest page →
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-11 | Jackson, NJ | Butterfly Camping Resort | 32 | 688.5600 | Big Raz BBQ | OLD VIRGINIA SMOKE |
| 2020-10-16 ← this one | Jackson, NJ | Butterfly Camping Resort | 37 | 693.6572 | Fire At the End of the Day | DRILLING & GRILLING |
| 2021-10-22 | Jackson, NJ | Jackson, NJ 08527 | 31 | 692.5028 | Wolf's Revenge | DIG'N N PIG'N |
| 2022-10-21 | Jackson, NJ | Butterfly Camping Resort | 29 | 694.7768 | Blue & Gray BBQ | BOGGS HOG BBQ |
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 176.0228 | 172.5716 |
| Pork Ribs | 179.4400 | 173.1200 | 169.1200 |
| Pork | 177.7144 | 173.7372 | 170.8572 |
| Brisket | 174.2744 | 169.6800 | 167.9884 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
37 entries · top 693.6572 · median 662.1488
Chicken
36 entries · top 180.0000 · median 168.2572 · 🔥 perfect 180
Pork Ribs
36 entries · top 179.4400 · median 165.4170
Pork
36 entries · top 177.7144 · median 167.1600
Brisket
37 entries · top 174.2744 · median 163.3828
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 — Dessert
10 entries · top 179.4400 · median 171.1200
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | UNCLE PIG'S BARBEQUE PIT | |
| 2 | SMOKIN' TEX BBQ | |
| 3 | BOGGS HOG BBQ | |
| 4 | A 2 Z | |
| 5 | HOKIE POKIE Q | |
| 6 | Grandpa Val's BBQ | |
| 7 | DANTE'S INFERNO | |
| 8 | SHADY CREW | |
| 9 | PACKANACK LAKE BBQ CLUB | |
| 10 | RGDBBQ |