A first Grand Championship
9
tracked contests to get there
This was Ain't It The Life's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 9th tracked contest.
World Championship Hot wing Contest and Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES)
Aug 27–28, 2021 · Memphis, TN · 📍 Liberty Bowl Stadium
Reps: Carolyn Wells, Wayne Lohman · Prize money: $6,850
Ain't It The Life won Grand Champion at the World Championship Hot wing Contest and Festival (COMPETITOR SERIES) on August 27, 2021 in Memphis, TN at Liberty Bowl Stadium, scoring 177.7144 in a field of 30 teams. Wing Ave took Reserve Grand Champion with 176.0000.
The contest at a glance (read off the scored boards)
How the field scored
Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.
158.25
median 171.69
177.71 🏆
Entries
30
0 judged meats · 2 ancillary
Top score
177.7144
Winning margin
1.7144
GC over RC
Field average
169.34
158.25177.71
median 171.69 · last place to winner
Perfect 180s
0
Top-10 cutoff
172.5600
158.25177.71
10th place overall
Field spread
19.4632
winner to last place
Prize money
$6,850
on the line
Storylines (3 found in this contest's numbers)
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
A knife fight at the top
3.3944
points across the top five
First to fifth in the overall standings covered just 3.3944 points.
- 1st Ain't It The Life
- 2nd Wing Ave
- 3rd Team Springbok Braai
- 4th Rusty's BBQ
- 5th Fat Side Up
A rookie on the podium
2nd
at their first tracked contest
Wing Ave finished 2nd overall in the first contest the data has them cooking at all.
Score curves (score by finishing position — steep cliffs mean a spread field, flat lines a knife fight)
Score distribution
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Competitor Series
Overall
30 entries · top 177.7144 · median 171.6856 · out of 180, not the usual 720
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 |