2021-03-12 – 2021-03-13 · Kansas City, MO · 📍 American Royal
Reps: KIM COLLIER, MARK COLLIER · Prize money: $5,300.00
Grand Champion: Damn Fine Beef & Swine (351.4172) · 24 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 2 Swine Crew
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.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 76 times in 100
Beer City Barbecue came in rated below the field's top team, MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 24-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
This was Damn Fine Beef & Swine's first Grand Championship in the data.
Damn Fine Beef & Swine finished 1st overall in the first contest the data has them cooking at all.
Chicken places 1–2: Smokey Boys and 2 Swine Crew tied on 176.5828 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 8–9: Smokey Red's and DB BBQ tied on 169.6800 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 3–4: Damn Fine Beef & Swine edged Squealin N Dealin BBQ by 0.0116.
1 perfect 180 was scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 176.5828 | 170.8572 | 162.8228 |
| Pork Ribs | 180.0000 | 171.4056 | 168.5372 |
24 entries · top 351.4172 · median 331.0742
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Damn Fine Beef & Swine | |
| 2 | 2 Swine Crew | |
| 3 | Squealin N Dealin BBQ | |
| 4 | SMOKE ON THE PRAIRIE | |
| 5 | Smokey Boys | |
| 6 | Smokey Red's | |
| 7 | TWISTED-Q | |
| 8 | Trauma Hogs BBQ | |
| 9 | Bonzai BBQ | |
| 10 | SMOKEY GQ | |
| 11 | DB BBQ | |
| 12 | T Daddys BBQ | |
| 13 | I Smell Smoke | |
| 14 | Smoke Show BBQ | |
| 15 | Firemaster BBQ | |
| 16 | Porkscrews | |
| 17 | Bizarre and Violent Bottle Stackers | |
| 18 | Heat's Neat | |
| 19 | Lawdawgs | |
| 20 | Between Names | |
| 21 | Hitormissbbq | |
| 22 | JUSTICE FOR YOU BBQ | |
| 23 | Beer City Barbecue | |
| 24 | Smokin' J's |
24 entries · top 176.5828 · median 161.0914
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smokey Boys | |
| 2 | 2 Swine Crew | |
| 3 | Damn Fine Beef & Swine | |
| 4 | Squealin N Dealin BBQ | |
| 5 | TWISTED-Q | |
| 6 | SMOKE ON THE PRAIRIE | |
| 7 | Trauma Hogs BBQ | |
| 8 | Smokey Red's | |
| 9 | I Smell Smoke | |
| 10 | T Daddys BBQ | |
| 11 | DB BBQ | |
| 12 | Smoke Show BBQ | |
| 13 | SMOKEY GQ | |
| 14 | Bonzai BBQ | |
| 15 | Lawdawgs | |
| 16 | Firemaster BBQ | |
| 17 | Bizarre and Violent Bottle Stackers | |
| 18 | Porkscrews | |
| 19 | Beer City Barbecue | |
| 20 | Between Names | |
| 21 | Heat's Neat | |
| 22 | Hitormissbbq | |
| 23 | Smokin' J's | |
| 24 | JUSTICE FOR YOU BBQ |
24 entries · top 180.0000 · median 167.6972 · 🔥 perfect 180
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Damn Fine Beef & Swine | |
| 2 | Bonzai BBQ | |
| 3 | SMOKEY GQ | |
| 4 | Heat's Neat | |
| 5 | Squealin N Dealin BBQ | |
| 6 | SMOKE ON THE PRAIRIE | |
| 7 | Firemaster BBQ | |
| 8 | Smokey Red's | |
| 9 | DB BBQ | |
| 10 | 2 Swine Crew | |
| 11 | T Daddys BBQ | |
| 12 | Smoke Show BBQ | |
| 13 | I Smell Smoke | |
| 14 | TWISTED-Q | |
| 15 | Trauma Hogs BBQ | |
| 16 | Porkscrews | |
| 17 | Smokey Boys | |
| 18 | Bizarre and Violent Bottle Stackers | |
| 19 | JUSTICE FOR YOU BBQ | |
| 20 | Hitormissbbq | |
| 21 | Between Names | |
| 22 | Lawdawgs | |
| 23 | Beer City Barbecue | |
| 24 | Smokin' J's |
12 entries · top 178.3200 · median 169.1486
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beer City Barbecue | |
| 2 | Breaking Slabs BBQ | |
| 3 | MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ | |
| 4 | Smokey Boys | |
| 5 | Smokesdidier BBQ | |
| 6 | Porkscrews | |
| 7 | Bonzai BBQ | |
| 8 | Bizarre and Violent Bottle Stackers | |
| 9 | Heat's Neat | |
| 10 | Lawdawgs | |
| 11 | Smokey Red's | |
| 12 | Grillas BBQ team |
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.
12 entries · top 178.3200 · median 169.1486
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beer City Barbecue | |
| 2 | Breaking Slabs BBQ | |
| 3 | MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ | |
| 4 | Smokey Boys | |
| 5 | Smokesdidier BBQ | |
| 6 | Porkscrews | |
| 7 | Bonzai BBQ | |
| 8 | Bizarre and Violent Bottle Stackers | |
| 9 | Heat's Neat | |
| 10 | Lawdawgs | |
| 11 | Smokey Red's | |
| 12 | Grillas BBQ team |