Inaugural Yellow City BBQ Shootout
2022-03-19 – 2022-03-20 · Amarillo, TX · 📍 10816 SE 3rd · State championship
Reps: BOB MCKINNON, TERRI MCKINNON · Prize money: $3,850.00
Grand Champion: Tip of Texas BBQ (678.7768) · 17 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Bushmaster BBQ
Entries
Top score
Winning margin
Field average
Perfect 180s
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
Field spread
Prize money
Double threats
How hot was the win?
Traveled in
Form held
Field strength
Storylines
🪒 A razor-thin finish
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.5712 points — closer than 90% of every championship in the data.
🧳 Out-of-towners took the title
Tip of Texas BBQ took the Grand Championship home to AZ.
📸 Photo finishes
Pork Ribs places 2–3: Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team and ROLLIN' SMOKE BBQ TEXAS tied on 169.1200 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 7–8: POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP and CRAWFORD'S BBQ tied on 164.5256 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 3–4: PCC edged TINY E BBQ by 0.0116.
🃏 An upset on the books
Tip of Texas BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, Bushmaster BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 28-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Score curves (score by finishing position — steep cliffs mean a spread field, flat lines a knife fight)
Category showdown (top / average / median score per meat)
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)
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 172.5600 | 169.1200 | 164.5600 |
| Pork Ribs | 171.4056 | 166.8344 | 163.9772 |
| Pork | 172.6172 | 166.8344 | 163.4056 |
| Brisket | 172.0228 | 166.2168 | 162.2284 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
17 entries · top 678.7768 · median 654.1484
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tip of Texas BBQ | |
| 2 | Bushmaster BBQ | |
| 3 | TINY E BBQ | |
| 4 | Chingon BBQ | |
| 5 | LA PASADITA | |
| 6 | ROLLIN' SMOKE BBQ TEXAS | |
| 7 | POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP | |
| 8 | Salted Anchor | |
| 9 | CRAWFORD'S BBQ | |
| 10 | Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team | |
| 11 | TEXAS OIL DUST | |
| 12 | Potbellied Stallions | |
| 13 | Element Craft BBQ | |
| 14 | UNCLE J'S | |
| 15 | Brinkerhoff BBQ | |
| 16 | 2-CAN-Q | |
| 17 | PCC |
Chicken
17 entries · top 172.5600 · median 165.6800
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bushmaster BBQ | |
| 2 | LA PASADITA | |
| 3 | PCC | |
| 4 | TINY E BBQ | |
| 5 | Tip of Texas BBQ | |
| 6 | Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team | |
| 7 | POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP | |
| 8 | Salted Anchor | |
| 9 | Chingon BBQ | |
| 10 | Element Craft BBQ | |
| 11 | CRAWFORD'S BBQ | |
| 12 | 2-CAN-Q | |
| 13 | Potbellied Stallions | |
| 14 | TEXAS OIL DUST | |
| 15 | UNCLE J'S | |
| 16 | ROLLIN' SMOKE BBQ TEXAS | |
| 17 | Brinkerhoff BBQ |
Pork Ribs
17 entries · top 171.4056 · median 165.0856
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salted Anchor | |
| 2 | Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team | |
| 3 | ROLLIN' SMOKE BBQ TEXAS | |
| 4 | Bushmaster BBQ | |
| 5 | TEXAS OIL DUST | |
| 6 | Tip of Texas BBQ | |
| 7 | PCC | |
| 8 | Chingon BBQ | |
| 9 | POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP | |
| 10 | Potbellied Stallions | |
| 11 | 2-CAN-Q | |
| 12 | TINY E BBQ | |
| 13 | Element Craft BBQ | |
| 14 | UNCLE J'S | |
| 15 | LA PASADITA | |
| 16 | CRAWFORD'S BBQ | |
| 17 | Brinkerhoff BBQ |
Pork
17 entries · top 172.6172 · median 163.9884
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LA PASADITA | |
| 2 | Tip of Texas BBQ | |
| 3 | TINY E BBQ | |
| 4 | Brinkerhoff BBQ | |
| 5 | Bushmaster BBQ | |
| 6 | Chingon BBQ | |
| 7 | POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP | |
| 8 | CRAWFORD'S BBQ | |
| 9 | ROLLIN' SMOKE BBQ TEXAS | |
| 10 | UNCLE J'S | |
| 11 | Potbellied Stallions | |
| 12 | Element Craft BBQ | |
| 13 | Salted Anchor | |
| 14 | TEXAS OIL DUST | |
| 15 | Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team | |
| 16 | 2-CAN-Q | |
| 17 | PCC |
Brisket
17 entries · top 172.0228 · median 162.2516
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tip of Texas BBQ | |
| 2 | ROLLIN' SMOKE BBQ TEXAS | |
| 3 | Bushmaster BBQ | |
| 4 | CRAWFORD'S BBQ | |
| 5 | Chingon BBQ | |
| 6 | TINY E BBQ | |
| 7 | POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP | |
| 8 | Brinkerhoff BBQ | |
| 9 | Element Craft BBQ | |
| 10 | TEXAS OIL DUST | |
| 11 | Potbellied Stallions | |
| 12 | Salted Anchor | |
| 13 | LA PASADITA | |
| 14 | UNCLE J'S | |
| 15 | Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team | |
| 16 | 2-CAN-Q | |
| 17 | PCC |