2021-09-24 – 2021-09-25 · Shawnee, KS · 📍 Shawnee Town · State championship
Reps: FORREST BRUCE, KIM COLLIER, LARRY HADLEY, MARK COLLIER · Prize money: $5,150.00
Grand Champion: Mad Mutt's BBQ (709.1316) · 86 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 913 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.
What it has taken to win here, 2013 to 2022 — this edition picked out.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
Closer than 97% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.0232 points — closer than 97% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 88 times in 100
MAD MUTT'S BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, GETTIN' BASTED, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 12-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
MAD MUTT'S BBQ won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 3 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.
3 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
2 of 7 tracked editions
BREW 'N' BAR-B-QUE has won this contest 2 times across its 7 tracked editions.
Chicken places 4–5: Sugar 'n Spice BBQ and Evening Wood tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 5–6: Evening Wood and FOUR MEN AND A PIG tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 6–7: FOUR MEN AND A PIG and 913 BBQ tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: BREW 'N' BAR-B-QUE (won 2015, 2016), Fat & Dumb BBQ (won 2019).
Bigger than 98% of the 5,410 contests in the data
86 teams made this a bigger field than 98% of every contest tracked.
Records held by every edition of this contest put together, not just this one afternoon.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-09-27 | Shawnee, KS | Shawnee, KS | 114 | 685.6800 | 3 GUYS WITH WOOD | HOGGY STYLE |
| 2014-09-26 | Shawnee, KS | Shawnee, KS 66203 | 112 | 694.2856 | KC Q | MIDNIGHT STOKERS |
| 2015-09-25 | Shawnee, KS | Shawnee, KS 66216 | 112 | 709.1200 | BREW 'N' BAR-B-QUE | FUNNY FARM BBQ |
| 2016-09-23 | Shawnee, KS | Shawnee, KS | 111 | 686.2284 | BREW 'N' BAR-B-QUE | SKUNK RIVER BBQ |
| 2019-09-27 | Shawnee, KS | Shawnee Town 1929 | 102 | 714.8572 | Fat & Dumb BBQ | 913 BBQ |
| 2021-09-24 ← this one | Shawnee, KS | Shawnee Town | 86 | 709.1316 | Mad Mutt's BBQ | 913 BBQ |
| 2022-09-23 | Shawnee, KS | 11600 Johnson Drive | 87 | 709.7256 | 913 BBQ | KC SMOKE DAWGS |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 176.5600 | 173.1428 |
| Pork Ribs | 178.8800 | 176.5716 | 174.8456 |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 177.7028 | 174.2856 |
| Brisket | 178.8800 | 177.7028 | 174.8800 |
86 entries · top 709.1316 · median 653.6172
86 entries · top 180.0000 · median 162.8286 · 🔥 perfect 180
86 entries · top 178.8800 · median 165.6800
86 entries · top 180.0000 · median 165.6970 · 🔥 perfect 180
85 entries · top 178.8800 · median 161.1088
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.
44 entries · top 180.0000 · median 169.1142 · 🔥 perfect 180
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | FOUR MEN AND A PIG | |
| 2 | Last Years Leftovers | |
| 3 | Hoggy Style BBQ | |
| 4 | Overland Pork BBQ | |
| 5 | 3 Blondes and a Bald | |
| 6 | Skyy Full of Smoke | |
| 7 | SMF | |
| 8 | Blowin' Smoke | |
| 9 | Grilligan's Island | |
| 10 | This is Nice | |
| 11 | BREW 'N' BAR-B-QUE | |
| 12 | Char-que-tary | |
| 13 | Nelson Family BBQ | |
| 14 | Pharr Moore BBQ | |
| 15 | Bubba's Pig-a-licious | |
| 16 | Evening Wood | |
| 17 | T'S SMOKIN PIT | |
| 18 | Bourbon Barrel Smokers | |
| 19 | Dunn Up BBQ | |
| 20 | Pine Tar BBQ | |
| 21 | Pigasus-In Pork We Trust | |
| 22 | Smokeritaville | |
| 23 | KC Rib Doctor | |
| 24 | Big Fork BBQ | |
| 25 | Mad Cow Angry Beaver | |
| 26 | IHC BBQ | |
| 27 | Short Horn | |
| 28 | Velvet Swine | |
| 29 | FOMSB | |
| 30 | HG BBQ | |
| 31 | Silence of the Hams | |
| 32 | Almost Flamous Barbeque | |
| 33 | Why Not Smoke | |
| 34 | Sugar 'n Spice BBQ | |
| 35 | Pot Bellies | |
| 36 | LEGENDARY BARBEQUE | |
| 37 | SMOKING JOE'S BARBERQ | |
| 38 | No Butts About It | |
| 39 | SWEET ASH BBQ | |
| 40 | Hawg Heaven | |
| 41 | Big Chubbs BBQ | |
| 42 | Sloppy Seconds | |
| 43 | Meat-A-Swinging | |
| 44 | Poker Smokers |