Firelake BBQ Cook Off-Day 2
2020-10-24 – 2020-10-25 · Shawnee, OK · 📍 1570 S Gordon Cooper Dr · State championship
Reps: BOB MCKINNON, KAREN JANE WILLIAMS, RALPH WILLIAMS, TERRI MCKINNON · Prize money: $13,000.00
Grand Champion: Petie's Smokin Pits BBQ (703.4060) · 58 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 HIGH i QUE
Entries
Top score
Winning margin
Field average
Perfect 180s
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 day of perfect scores
9 perfect 180s were scored at this contest.
📸 Photo finishes
Chicken places 1–2: LA PASADITA and THE REPUBLIC OF 'QUE tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 2–3: THE REPUBLIC OF 'QUE and MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 3–4: MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ and Chingon BBQ tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
🛡️ Back to defend
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: Boomerang BBQ (won 2019).
🃏 An upset on the books
Petie's Smokin Pits BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, GETTIN' BASTED, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 24-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-03-23 | Shawnee, OK | 1570 S Gordon Cooper | 62 | 706.2400 | Boomerang BBQ | 4 LEGS UP BBQ |
| 2020-10-24 ← this one | Shawnee, OK | 1570 S Gordon Cooper Dr | 58 | 703.4060 | Petie's Smokin Pits BBQ | HIGH i QUE |
| 2021-03-20 | Shawnee, OK | 1570 S Gordon Cooper Dr | 50 | 701.6912 | Shake n' Bake BBQ | FAT BOYS BBQ - TEMPLE, TX |
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 179.4400 | 176.5600 |
| Pork Ribs | 179.4400 | 177.7144 | 176.5600 |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 176.5600 | 175.4172 |
| Brisket | 180.0000 | 177.7028 | 175.4172 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
58 entries · top 703.4060 · median 685.3428
Chicken
58 entries · top 180.0000 · median 173.1258 · 🔥 perfect 180
Pork Ribs
58 entries · top 179.4400 · median 169.1314
Pork
58 entries · top 180.0000 · median 170.2628 · 🔥 perfect 180
Brisket
58 entries · top 180.0000 · median 170.8286 · 🔥 perfect 180
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
9 entries · top 180.0000 · median 177.1544 · 🔥 perfect 180
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SMOKIN DAN | |
| 2 | BOOMERANG BBQ | |
| 3 | PETIE'S SMOKIN PITS BBQ | |
| 4 | MY 3 SONS BARBEQUE MO | |
| 5 | BUFFALO'S BBQ | |
| 6 | BOGGS HOG BBQ | |
| 7 | Three Hog Night Smokers | |
| 8 | ALL FORKED UP FOR Q | |
| 9 | B-S BBQ OUTLAWS |