2022-04-30 – 2022-05-01 · Chidlow, Western, 6558 · AUSTRALIA · 📍 Chidlow, Western, 6558
Reps: GARTH WELSH, KARINA RUMENS
Grand Champion: Delta T BBQ (661.6684) · 16 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Barking Gecko 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.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
Closer than 94% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.5140 points — closer than 94% of every championship in the data.
Barbecue Bazaar - Delta T BBQ won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 3 calls from 4 boards, best of them 4th. Consistency beat fireworks.
First to fifth in the overall standings covered just 4.6052 points — 2 teams sat within a single point of the lead.
Pork places 3–4: Barking Gecko BBQ and Barbecue Bazaar - Delta T BBQ tied on 168.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 8–9: BLUE MIST BBQ edged Smokin Steve's BBQ by 0.0116. Brisket places 2–3: CUMBIA BBQ TEAM edged Firestarter by 0.0228.
Outagas BBQ turned in 178.8800 in pork ribs — past the 172.5944 that had stood across 1 earlier editions.
This contest was away for 3 years — the previous tracked edition ran on 2019-05-04.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-05-04 | Chidlow,Western, 6556 | Chidlow,Western, 6556 | 21 | 678.9028 | Big Don's Smoked Meats | Ribs n Pigs BBQ |
| 2022-04-30 ← this one | Chidlow, Western, 6558 | Chidlow, Western, 6558 | 16 | 661.6684 | Delta T BBQ | Barking Gecko BBQ |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 176.0000 | 166.8344 | 161.1772 |
| Pork Ribs | 178.8800 | 163.4628 | 159.3828 |
| Pork | 176.5944 | 166.8684 | 155.4400 |
| Brisket | 173.1200 | 168.5600 | 162.8572 |
16 entries · top 661.6684 · median 645.0514
16 entries · top 176.0000 · median 162.5772
16 entries · top 178.8800 · median 159.9830
16 entries · top 176.5944 · median 159.1256
16 entries · top 173.1200 · median 166.5370
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.
7 entries · top 171.4056 · median 157.7144
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Molly's BBQ Smokhouse | |
| 2 | Rib Racks BBQ | |
| 3 | Smokin Genius | |
| 4 | Barking Gecko BBQ | |
| 5 | Smokin Steve's BBQ | |
| 6 | Outagas BBQ | |
| 7 | Smokin it up BBQ Australia |