2021-10-01 – 2021-10-02 · Tahlequah, OK · 📍 16430 US-62
Reps: LARRY VOTH, LYNDA VOTH · Prize money: $4,375.00
Grand Champion: Second Hand Smoke (532.0000) · 20 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Damn Fine Beef & Swine
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, 2021 to 2023 — 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.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 77 times in 100
Secondhand Smoke came in rated below the field's top team, Damn Fine Beef & Swine, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 23-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
This was Second Hand Smoke's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 22nd tracked contest.
Pork Ribs places 2–3: Damn Fine Beef & Swine and Compete BBQ Team tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 3–4: Compete BBQ Team and Secondhand Smoke tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 1–2: Secondhand Smoke and Fine As* Swine BBQ tied on 177.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
Secondhand Smoke won Chicken, Pork — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
Secondhand Smoke took the title on 3 calls from 3 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was pork ribs at 4th.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-01 ← this one | Tahlequah, OK | 16430 US-62 | 20 | 532.0000 | Second Hand Smoke | — |
| 2023-08-04 | Tahlequah, OK | 1046 W. Allen Rd. | 36 | 699.9772 | TINY E | MAN MEAT BBQ |
| 2023-08-04 | Tahlequah, OK | 1046 W. Allen Rd. | 23 | 176.0116 | SPEEDY PIG | — |
| 2025-05-02 | Tahlequah, OK | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025-05-02 | Tahlequah, OK | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025-05-02 | Tahlequah, OK | — | — | — | — | — |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 177.7372 | 171.9772 | 167.4400 |
| Pork Ribs | 176.5716 | 175.4172 | 163.9888 |
| Pork | 177.7028 | 174.2744 | 166.2400 |
20 entries · top 532.0000 · median 490.4972
20 entries · top 177.7372 · median 167.4172
20 entries · top 176.5716 · median 163.9658
20 entries · top 177.7028 · median 165.6744
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.
11 entries · top 173.7256 · median 169.6800