2021-06-04 – 2021-06-05 · Cedar Park, TX · 📍 1901 Sun Chase Blvd · State championship
Reps: KAREN JANE WILLIAMS, RALPH WILLIAMS · Prize money: $15,000.00
Grand Champion: Chicken Fried BBQ (702.8800) · 48 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 LA PASADITA
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.
What it has taken to win here, 2014 to 2026 — this edition picked out.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
702.8800 is the highest overall score this contest has ever produced — past the 701.7372 Texas-car-b-que set in 2019.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 77 times in 100
CHICKEN FRIED BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, THE AMERICAN DREAM BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 23-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Wider than 87% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The champion won by 9.7600 points — a wider margin than 87% of championships in the data.
BBQ PROJECT finished 3rd overall in the first contest the data has them cooking at all.
Brisket places 3–4: FAT BOYS BBQ - TEMPLE, TX and QIS - QUALITY IN SMOKE tied on 170.8456 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 8–9: TEX'S SMOKE and Big Horn Cookers tied on 168.5256 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 3–4: Rio Valley Meat BBQ edged Uncle Vic's BBQ by 0.0112.
CHICKEN FRIED BBQ won Chicken, Pork — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
CHICKEN FRIED BBQ took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was brisket at 7th.
CHICKEN FRIED BBQ turned in 180.0000 in chicken — past the 178.8572 that had stood across 4 earlier editions.
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: FAT BOYS BBQ - TEMPLE, TX (won 2017).
This contest was away for 2.2 years — the previous tracked edition ran on 2019-04-05.
1 perfect 180 was scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-04-04 | Cedar Park, TX | Cedar Park, TX 78630 | 50 | 663.9768 | TRASH CAN COOKERS | ONE MAN PITS |
| 2017-03-31 | Cedar Park, TX | 1901 Sunchase Blvd | 70 | 687.4284 | FAT BOYS BBQ - TEMPLE, TX | ROLLIN' SMOKE BBQ TEXAS |
| 2018-04-06 | Cedar Park, TX | 1901 Sunchase Blvd | 69 | 693.6800 | ROOFTOP BBQ | FAT BOYS BBQ - TEMPLE, TX |
| 2019-04-05 | Cedar Park, TX | 1901 Sunchase Blvd | 61 | 701.7372 | Texas-car-b-que | KISS MY RACK |
| 2021-06-04 ← this one | Cedar Park, TX | 1901 Sun Chase Blvd | 48 | 702.8800 | Chicken Fried BBQ | LA PASADITA |
| 2022-04-01 | Cedar Park, TX | 1901 Sun Chase Blvd | 56 | 698.2284 | Chingon BBQ | Texas Chrome Hero's Foundation |
| 2026-04-10 | Cedar Park, TX | Elizabeth Milburn Park Cedar Park | 41 | 702.8228 | PS I LOVE YOU BBQ | Si Quema BBQ |
| 2027-04-02 | Cedar Park, TX | — | — | — | — | — |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 175.4056 | 172.0000 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.7144 | 173.1428 | 170.9028 |
| Pork | 178.8572 | 174.8688 | 171.4056 |
| Brisket | 172.0344 | 170.2856 | 167.4172 |
48 entries · top 702.8800 · median 649.6686
48 entries · top 180.0000 · median 165.4000 · 🔥 perfect 180
48 entries · top 177.7144 · median 165.9600
46 entries · top 178.8572 · median 166.8342
48 entries · top 172.0344 · median 160.2170
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.
18 entries · top 177.1544 · median 165.4000
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ROLLIN' SMOKE BBQ TEXAS | |
| 2 | TEX'S SMOKE | |
| 3 | Back Porch Smokers Team 1 | |
| 4 | Sparky's BBQ | |
| 5 | Smokin Bro's | |
| 6 | Lolli Q | |
| 7 | Big Pit Energy | |
| 8 | Smokin Cole's BBQ Sauce & Marinade | |
| 9 | Barn Burners BBQ--2 | |
| 10 | Me,Myself & I | |
| 11 | Pappo's BBQ | |
| 12 | Barn Burners BBQ | |
| 13 | Dazed & BBQ'd | |
| 14 | Race Crew BBQ | |
| 15 | Lucille's BBQ | |
| 16 | Hoggy Style | |
| 17 | Smokin Cochino's | |
| 18 | Jolly-Q |