2025-06-07 – 2025-06-08 · Roseland, VA · 📍 30 Three Ridges Ln · State championship
Reps: ALAN ROTHROCK, DOUG REID · Prize money: $2,000.00
Grand Champion: Old Virginia Smoke (699.9660) · 18 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Buckshot's 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.
699.9660 is the highest overall score this contest has ever produced — past the 698.2400 Old Virginia Smoke set in 2025.
Old Virginia Smoke won here last time out too — 2 straight editions of this contest.
OLD VIRGINIA SMOKE won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 4 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.
2 of 2 tracked editions
Old Virginia Smoke has won this contest 2 times across its 2 tracked editions.
Stronger than 98% of every rated contest
The field averaged a 1670 power rating going in — stronger than 98% of every contest tracked.
Chicken places 4–5: OLD VIRGINIA SMOKE and UNCLE PIG'S BARBEQUE PIT tied on 175.4172 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 6–7: LEE LA Q and Bowmans Butt & BBQ tied on 174.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 1–2: Bowmans Butt & BBQ and OLD VIRGINIA SMOKE tied on 177.7144 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
Bowmans Butt & BBQ turned in 177.7144 in pork ribs — past the 175.4172 that had stood across 1 earlier editions.
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: Old Virginia Smoke (won 2025).
1 perfect 180 was scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
18 of 19 teams from 2025-06-06 came back
18 of the 19 teams that cooked the previous edition came back for this one — a contest people put on the calendar.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-06 | Roseland, VA | 30 Three Ridges Ln | 15 | 698.2400 | Old Virginia Smoke | Menke Boys BBQ |
| 2025-06-07 ← this one | Roseland, VA | 30 Three Ridges Ln | 18 | 699.9660 | Old Virginia Smoke | Buckshot's BBQ |
| 2026-05-30 | Roseland, VA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 175.4172 | 173.1200 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.7144 | 174.8456 | 172.5600 |
| Pork | 178.8572 | 175.4172 | 170.8228 |
| Brisket | 178.8572 | 173.1200 | 169.6684 |
18 entries · top 699.9660 · median 684.1886
18 entries · top 180.0000 · median 173.4114 · 🔥 perfect 180
18 entries · top 177.7144 · median 172.8342
18 entries · top 178.8572 · median 170.8400
18 entries · top 178.8572 · median 170.2456