World Championship Hot wing Contest and Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES)
2021-08-27 – 2021-08-28 · Memphis, TN · 📍 Liberty Bowl Stadium
Reps: CAROLYN WELLS, WAYNE LOHMAN · Prize money: $6,850.00
Grand Champion: Ain't It The Life (177.7144) · 30 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Wing Ave
Entries
30
0 judged meats · 2 ancillary
Top score
177.7144
Winning margin
1.7144
GC over RC
Field average
169.34
median 171.69
Perfect 180s
0
Top-10 cutoff
172.5600
10th place overall
Field spread
19.4632
winner to last place
Prize money
$6,850.00
on the line
How hot was the win?
Top 90%
beats 10% of 58 Competitor Series wins in the data
Traveled in
3%
of the 30 teams with a home region came from outside TN
Form held
Weak
ρ = 0.18 between pre-contest rating and finish
Field strength
1500
avg power rating going in · stronger than 3% of contests
Score curves (score by finishing position — steep cliffs mean a spread field, flat lines a knife fight)
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)
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Competitor Series
Overall
30 entries · top 177.7144 · median 171.6856
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.
Competitor Series — Wings Finals
30 entries · top 177.7144 · median 171.6856
Other — Wings Preliminary
41 entries · top 177.1428 · median 167.9772
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Team Springbok Braai | |
| 2 | What The Cluck - 1 | |
| 3 | Buffalo Soldiers 1 | |
| 4 | Barnyard Pimps | |
| 5 | Wing Ave | |
| 6 | Fowl Play | |
| 7 | Adventure River Concessions | |
| 8 | Seasoned Fire | |
| 9 | Ain't It The Life | |
| 10 | Fat Side Up | |
| 11 | Buffalo Soldiers 2 | |
| 12 | NWO Hollywood | |
| 13 | Big John's Texas BBQ | |
| 14 | Wing Genius | |
| 15 | Fowl Balls | |
| 16 | Wing Wing Hello | |
| 17 | City Auto Wingin' It | |
| 18 | Hold My Beer and Watch This | |
| 19 | Hold My Beer and Watch This @2 | |
| 20 | Goose and His Wingmen | |
| 21 | Game of Bones | |
| 22 | Rusty's BBQ | |
| 23 | NWO Wolfpack | |
| 24 | The Beef N The Chicken | |
| 25 | Mother Cluckers | |
| 26 | The Wing Dispensary | |
| 27 | The Unusual Saucepects | |
| 28 | Wing of Fire | |
| 29 | Mighty B's | |
| 30 | Robin's Smokehouse | |
| 31 | Burnin' Love | |
| 32 | Three Monkeys | |
| 33 | Wing Bling | |
| 34 | Memphis As Cluck | |
| 35 | Spicy Peckers | |
| 36 | Wing Wang Twins | |
| 37 | Medical Grade Wings | |
| 38 | BYOB&GRUB | |
| 39 | Wingsutra | |
| 40 | Purple People Eaters | |
| 41 | Suspicious Thighs |