Apr 29–30, 2022 · Topeka, KS · 📍 1 Expocentre Dr · State championship
Reps: Dave Rogers, Forrest Bruce, Peg Rogers · Prize money: $20,000
SLAPS BBQ won Grand Champion at the Red, White, Blue BBQ Competition on April 29, 2022 in Topeka, KS at 1 Expocentre Dr, scoring 702.2744 in a field of 77 teams. GETTIN' SAUCED took Reserve Grand Champion with 702.2628. Category winners: Chicken — SMOKE RINGERS (180.0000); Pork Ribs — Cow Creek BBQ (180.0000); Pork — SMOKE RINGERS (178.8572); Brisket — GETTIN' SAUCED (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.
This contest holds the KCBS record for tightest contest ever cooked — 5 teams within a point of the lead, in a field of 77 · won with 702.2744, set right here. Nobody has beaten it since.
Closer than 98% of the 4,710 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.0116 points — closer than 98% of every championship in the data.
SLAPS BBQ won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 3 calls from 4 boards, best of them 5th. Consistency beat fireworks.
3 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
First to fifth in the overall standings covered just 0.6288 points — 5 teams sat within a single point of the lead.
Chicken places 3–4: KC SMOKE DAWGS and HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ tied on 178.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 4–5: HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ and SLAPS BBQ tied on 178.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 8–9: Free Range Friends BBQ and Smoke 'n Magic tied on 177.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
SMOKE RINGERS won Chicken, Pork — a double.
Bigger than 97% of the 5,462 contests in the data
77 teams — bigger than 97% of the 5,462 contests in the data.
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 | 180 | 178.8572 | 176.5600 |
| Pork Ribs | 180 | 176.5944 | 174.2744 |
| Pork | 178.8572 | 176.5600 | 174.2972 |
| Brisket | 180 | 177.1428 | 174.2744 |
77 entries · top 702.2744 · median 672.4568
76 entries · top 180 · median 169.1200 · 🔥 perfect 180
76 entries · top 180 · median 167.1486 · 🔥 perfect 180
77 entries · top 178.8572 · median 167.4056
77 entries · top 180 · median 163.3944 · 🔥 perfect 180