Hot Summer Nights Smoke n Sauce BBQ-(BACKYARD ONLY)
2021-07-23 – 2021-07-24 · Bloomington, IN · 📍 5700 W Airport Rd
Reps: JEANNE TITUS, TINA WELLER · Prize money: $2,420.00
Grand Champion: Lee La Q (507.9772) · 14 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 2 Swine Crew
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
🪒 A razor-thin finish
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.0456 points — closer than 93% of every championship in the data.
🧳 Out-of-towners took the title
LEE LA Q took the Grand Championship home to AL.
📸 Photo finishes
Chicken places 3–4: Fat Bottom BBQ edged TFS PIT VIPERS by 0.0228. Chicken places 6–7: Great White Smoke edged LEE LA Q by 0.0228. Pork Ribs places 4–5: Great White Smoke edged Fat Bottom BBQ by 0.0456.
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 | 173.7256 | 165.1200 | 152.5028 |
| Pork Ribs | 171.4172 | 163.3944 | 155.3944 |
| Pork | 177.7144 | 168.5828 | 157.1428 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Backyard Series
Overall
14 entries · top 507.9772 · median 476.4574
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LEE LA Q | |
| 2 | 2 Swine Crew | |
| 3 | Tojo's Smoke Me Tender | |
| 4 | TFS PIT VIPERS | |
| 5 | Great White Smoke | |
| 6 | 2 Crackers Smoking | |
| 7 | Ridge Bro's BBQ | |
| 8 | Winks's BBQ | |
| 9 | Fat Bottom BBQ | |
| 10 | Driveway Smokers | |
| 11 | Loose Cannon BBQ | |
| 12 | Boneyard BBQ | |
| 13 | Big Green Machine BBQ | |
| 14 | Top Rope BBQ |
Chicken
13 entries · top 173.7256 · median 164.5372
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tojo's Smoke Me Tender | |
| 2 | Ridge Bro's BBQ | |
| 3 | Fat Bottom BBQ | |
| 4 | TFS PIT VIPERS | |
| 5 | Driveway Smokers | |
| 6 | Great White Smoke | |
| 7 | LEE LA Q | |
| 8 | 2 Swine Crew | |
| 9 | Boneyard BBQ | |
| 10 | 2 Crackers Smoking | |
| 11 | Big Green Machine BBQ | |
| 12 | Loose Cannon BBQ | |
| 13 | Winks's BBQ |
Pork Ribs
14 entries · top 171.4172 · median 161.9828
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LEE LA Q | |
| 2 | 2 Swine Crew | |
| 3 | Tojo's Smoke Me Tender | |
| 4 | Great White Smoke | |
| 5 | Fat Bottom BBQ | |
| 6 | Winks's BBQ | |
| 7 | Loose Cannon BBQ | |
| 8 | TFS PIT VIPERS | |
| 9 | Ridge Bro's BBQ | |
| 10 | Boneyard BBQ | |
| 11 | 2 Crackers Smoking | |
| 12 | Driveway Smokers | |
| 13 | Big Green Machine BBQ | |
| 14 | Top Rope BBQ |
Pork
14 entries · top 177.7144 · median 163.4114
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 Swine Crew | |
| 2 | 2 Crackers Smoking | |
| 3 | LEE LA Q | |
| 4 | Great White Smoke | |
| 5 | TFS PIT VIPERS | |
| 6 | Winks's BBQ | |
| 7 | Loose Cannon BBQ | |
| 8 | Tojo's Smoke Me Tender | |
| 9 | Top Rope BBQ | |
| 10 | Driveway Smokers | |
| 11 | Boneyard BBQ | |
| 12 | Ridge Bro's BBQ | |
| 13 | Fat Bottom BBQ | |
| 14 | Big Green Machine BBQ |
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 — Anything Butt
5 entries · top 179.4400 · median 177.7372
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LEE LA Q | |
| 2 | TFS PIT VIPERS | |
| 3 | Great White Smoke | |
| 4 | Top Rope BBQ | |
| 5 | Ridge Bro's BBQ |
Ancillary — Sauce
5 entries · top 177.1428 · median 173.1428
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ridge Bro's BBQ | |
| 2 | LEE LA Q | |
| 3 | TFS PIT VIPERS | |
| 4 | Fat Bottom BBQ | |
| 5 | Driveway Smokers |