New Jersey State BBQ Championship
2021-07-09 – 2021-07-10 · North Wildwood, NJ · 📍 201 New Jersey Ave · State championship
Reps: JEFF CHAMBERS, LOUISE WEIDNER, REGINA BODNAR · Prize money: $10,000.00
Grand Champion: Glazed and Infused New Jersey BBQ (690.8112) · 59 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Crescent Moon
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
Form held
Field strength
Storylines
📸 Photo finishes
Chicken places 8–9: BOGGS HOG BBQ and SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA tied on 171.9656 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 8–9: Dante's Inferno edged BOGGS HOG BBQ by 0.0116. Chicken places 6–7: CHUNKY BBQ edged WEEKEND SMOKERS by 0.0116.
🃏 An upset on the books
GLAZED AND INFUSED NEW JERSEY BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, Top Gun Barbecue, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 26-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)
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 179.4400 | 174.2744 | 169.7256 |
| Pork Ribs | 179.4400 | 170.8916 | 167.9772 |
| Pork | 178.2972 | 171.9772 | 168.6172 |
| Brisket | 177.1428 | 171.9656 | 167.9772 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
59 entries · top 690.8112 · median 627.9772
Chicken
58 entries · top 179.4400 · median 158.2458
Pork Ribs
58 entries · top 179.4400 · median 158.8172
Pork
58 entries · top 178.2972 · median 159.1544
Brisket
59 entries · top 177.1428 · median 154.8228
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 — Burgers
32 entries · top 178.3200 · median 163.9828
Ancillary — Dessert
32 entries · top 180.0000 · median 168.5716 · 🔥 perfect 180
Kids-Q — Kids Q Older
4 entries · top 170.8456 · median 165.3944
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big Bob's Smokin Que Kids B | |
| 2 | B's Que Kids A | |
| 3 | Beer, Bones & Butts Kids B | |
| 4 | Trippin' Out |
Kids-Q — Kids Q Younger
4 entries · top 174.2744 · median 167.7200
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glazed & Infused Kids A | |
| 2 | Big Bob's Smokin Que Kids A | |
| 3 | Smoke or Be Smoked Kids A | |
| 4 | Beer, Bones & Butts Kids A |
Ancillary — Sauce
47 entries · top 176.5828 · median 162.8112