Oct 23–24, 2021 · Summerville, SC · 📍 Dorchester Shrine Club · State championship
Reps: Julie Cook, Rusty Cook
SMOKIN SKULLIES won Grand Champion at the SC - BBQ Shoot Out Day 2 on October 23, 2021 in Summerville, SC at Dorchester Shrine Club, scoring 713.1200 in a field of 15 teams. UNDER THE RADAR took Reserve Grand Champion with 711.9656. Category winners: Chicken — BROWN LIQUOR BBQ (178.8572); Pork Ribs — UNDER THE RADAR (180.0000); Pork — SMOKIN SKULLIES (178.8572); Brisket — OLD VIRGINIA SMOKE (180.0000).
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.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
Closer than 79% of the 4,710 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 1.1544 points — closer than 79% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 68 times in 100
SMOKIN SKULLIES came in rated below the field's top team, ROOTERS-N-TOOTERS TN, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 32-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
5 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
Stronger than 100% of every rated contest
The field averaged a 1710 power rating going in — stronger than 100% of every contest tracked.
Chicken places 1–2: BROWN LIQUOR BBQ and Smoke Central BBQ tied on 178.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 3–4: SMOKIN SKULLIES and UNDER THE RADAR tied on 177.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 4–5: UNDER THE RADAR and MUTTLEY CREW BBQ tied on 177.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
SMOKIN SKULLIES took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was pork ribs at 6th.
What happened at this contest that stands in the all-time KCBS record book. A gold line is a record nobody has beaten.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 178.8572 | 177.7028 | 175.4056 |
| Pork Ribs | 180 | 176.5600 | 174.2628 |
| Pork | 178.8572 | 176.5600 | 173.1200 |
| Brisket | 180 | 176.5828 | 170.8112 |
15 entries · top 713.1200 · median 697.0628
15 entries · top 178.8572 · median 175.4172
15 entries · top 180 · median 175.4288 · 🔥 perfect 180
15 entries · top 178.8572 · median 174.2628
15 entries · top 180 · median 170.8456 · 🔥 perfect 180