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BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay

2022-05-28 – 2022-05-29 · North Bend, OR · 📍 3201 Tremont Ave · State championship

Reps: IAN SCHMIDT, JULIE POE · Prize money: $13,000.00

Grand Champion: Mudville BBQ (697.1200) · 27 teams

Reserve Champion: 🥈 RJs Smokehouse

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MUDVILLE BBQ
697.1200 · Master Series — Overall
🥈
RJs Smokehouse
689.0168 · Master Series — Overall
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CROOKED PIGS
688.5256 · Master Series — Overall

Entries

27
4 judged meats · 1 ancillary

Top score

697.1200

Winning margin

8.1032
GC over RC

Field average

660.55
median 661.62

Perfect 180s

0

Tightest race

Pork
2.8800 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

671.3940
10th place overall

Field spread

140.7772
winner to last place

Prize money

$13,000.00
on the line

Most consistent

MUDVILLE BBQ
avg finish 5.75 across 4 meats

Double threats

7
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Pork
won by 0.5828 pts — Small Axe BBQ

How hot was the win?

Top 62%
beats 38% of 1951 Master Series wins in the data

Traveled in

26%
of the 27 teams with a home region came from outside OR

Came back for more

29%
10 of 34 teams from the previous edition returned

Form held

Strong
ρ = -0.61 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1511
avg power rating going in · stronger than 15% of contests

Top-rated in the field

MUDVILLE BBQ
rated 1616 pre-contest

Storylines

👑 A dynasty in the making

ROOFTOP BBQ has won this contest 2 times across its 12 tracked editions.

💪 A statement win

The champion won by 8.1032 points — a wider margin than 85% of championships in the data.

🧳 Out-of-towners took the title

MUDVILLE BBQ took the Grand Championship home to CA.

📸 Photo finishes

Pork places 8–9: RJs Smokehouse and HOGGERQ tied on 169.6800 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 8–9: Bearded Boar BBQ and BOOTIES BBQ tied on 166.8228 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 7–8: WARPIG BBQ & SAUSAGE CO. edged PRISON BREAK BBQ by 0.0116.

🛡️ Back to defend

Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: BIG BITE BBQ (won 2014), SMOKIN TIMBERS NORTHWEST (won 2017), SON OF SMOKE (won 2018).

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)

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)

This contest over the years full contest page →

DateWhereVenueTeamsHigh scoreGrand ChampionReserve Champion
2013-05-25 North Bend, OR 31 694.8570 LAKE HOUSE BBQ MOE CASON BBQ
2014-05-24 North Bend, OR 97459 31 693.0740 BIG BITE BBQ DUELIN' J'S
2015-05-22 North Bend, OR 97459 38 698.3200 ROOFTOP BBQ WINE COUNTRY Q
2016-05-28 North Bend, OR 43 695.4288 ROOFTOP BBQ PIGGY D'S BBQ
2017-05-27 3201 Tremont Ave 37 692.4684 SMOKIN TIMBERS NORTHWEST The Yellow Rose Texas BBQ Company
2018-05-26 3201 Tremont Ave 35 691.9312 SON OF SMOKE SMOKE324
2019-05-25 North Bend, OR 3201 Tremont Ave 34 694.8572 Warpig BBQ PIGGY D'S BBQ
2022-05-28 ← this one North Bend, OR 3201 Tremont Ave 27 697.1200 Mudville BBQ RJs Smokehouse
2023-05-27 North Bend, OR 3201 Tremont Ave 25 697.1544 Smokin' Axe BBQ HOGGERQ
2024-05-25 North Bend, OR 3201 Tremont Ave 27 696.5600 Crooked Pigs Small Axe BBQ
2025-05-24 North Bend, OR 3201 Tremont Ave 26 703.3828 Crooked Pigs Vitamin Q
2026-05-23 North Bend, OR 3201 Tremont Ave 33 702.8228 Bone Rubbin BBQ OM BBQ COMPANY

What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)

Category1st5th10th
Chicken176.5600172.0000169.7256
Pork Ribs176.5944173.1656171.4400
Pork176.5828173.7028168.5944
Brisket179.4400172.0228166.2400

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

27 entries · top 697.1200 · median 661.6232

#TeamScore
1 MUDVILLE BBQ 697.1200
2 RJs Smokehouse 689.0168
3 CROOKED PIGS 688.5256
4 SON OF SMOKE 687.4288
5 Small Axe BBQ 682.2512
6 HOGGERQ 682.1828
7 Bearded Boar BBQ 679.9200
8 BOOTIES BBQ 678.8000
9 SMOKIN TIMBERS NORTHWEST 674.7196
10 WARPIG BBQ & SAUSAGE CO. 671.3940
11 Gladiator BBQ 664.5712
12 503 Backyard BBQ 662.7428
13 Elkhorn BBQ 662.2744
14 Rob's Smokin' & Grillin' 661.6232
15 THE CALIFORNIA GRILL BILLIES 660.4684
16 Old Dirty Basters 659.9768
17 PRISON BREAK BBQ 659.9428
18 Big Bite BBQ 659.3712
19 Locked Up BBQ 654.7652
20 Jeremiah Johnson Mountain Man BBQ 652.5028
21 BBQ Bros 652.4340
22 DANCES WITH SMOKE BARBEQUE 651.2572
23 Smokeshow BBQ 650.2512
24 J&C BBQ 648.4684
25 ONW BBQ Company 640.4340
26 Greenhorn Smokehouse 606.1148
27 Northwest Smokehouse 556.3428

Chicken

27 entries · top 176.5600 · median 166.2856

#TeamScore
1 RJs Smokehouse 176.5600
2 BOOTIES BBQ 176.0000
3 MUDVILLE BBQ 175.4400
4 CROOKED PIGS 174.8800
5 Bearded Boar BBQ 172.0000
6 THE CALIFORNIA GRILL BILLIES 171.4056
7 SON OF SMOKE 170.8572
8 Old Dirty Basters 170.3200
9 HOGGERQ 170.2744
10 Elkhorn BBQ 169.7256
11 WARPIG BBQ & SAUSAGE CO. 169.7028
12 Rob's Smokin' & Grillin' 167.3828
13 ONW BBQ Company 166.8456
14 Gladiator BBQ 166.2856
15 Smokeshow BBQ 166.2628
16 SMOKIN TIMBERS NORTHWEST 166.2628
17 PRISON BREAK BBQ 166.2516
18 503 Backyard BBQ 166.2516
19 Greenhorn Smokehouse 165.7028
20 J&C BBQ 164.5484
21 Big Bite BBQ 164.0000
22 Jeremiah Johnson Mountain Man BBQ 162.8228
23 Small Axe BBQ 162.2284
24 Locked Up BBQ 161.1084
25 BBQ Bros 157.0856
26 Northwest Smokehouse 151.9884
27 DANCES WITH SMOKE BARBEQUE 151.9200

Pork Ribs

27 entries · top 176.5944 · median 168.0000

#TeamScore
1 BBQ Bros 176.5944
2 HOGGERQ 176.5600
3 CROOKED PIGS 174.8456
4 Bearded Boar BBQ 174.2744
5 Gladiator BBQ 173.1656
6 Big Bite BBQ 172.0228
7 WARPIG BBQ & SAUSAGE CO. 172.0000
8 PRISON BREAK BBQ 171.9884
9 SMOKIN TIMBERS NORTHWEST 171.9656
10 Elkhorn BBQ 171.4400
11 SON OF SMOKE 170.2860
12 MUDVILLE BBQ 170.2744
13 RJs Smokehouse 169.6684
14 DANCES WITH SMOKE BARBEQUE 168.0000
15 503 Backyard BBQ 167.9656
16 Old Dirty Basters 166.2744
17 Locked Up BBQ 165.6912
18 Small Axe BBQ 164.5828
19 J&C BBQ 162.2972
20 Smokeshow BBQ 161.7028
21 Rob's Smokin' & Grillin' 160.5716
22 BOOTIES BBQ 159.9772
23 ONW BBQ Company 159.3828
24 Greenhorn Smokehouse 158.8116
25 Jeremiah Johnson Mountain Man BBQ 157.1544
26 THE CALIFORNIA GRILL BILLIES 156.5028
27 Northwest Smokehouse 138.8228

Pork

27 entries · top 176.5828 · median 166.8228

#TeamScore
1 Small Axe BBQ 176.5828
2 BOOTIES BBQ 176.0000
3 Locked Up BBQ 174.8456
4 SON OF SMOKE 174.2628
5 WARPIG BBQ & SAUSAGE CO. 173.7028
6 Smokeshow BBQ 172.6056
7 MUDVILLE BBQ 171.9656
8 RJs Smokehouse 169.6800
9 HOGGERQ 169.6800
10 THE CALIFORNIA GRILL BILLIES 168.5944
11 Rob's Smokin' & Grillin' 168.5372
12 CROOKED PIGS 167.9772
13 503 Backyard BBQ 166.8228
14 Bearded Boar BBQ 166.8228
15 PRISON BREAK BBQ 166.2972
16 Gladiator BBQ 166.2628
17 Elkhorn BBQ 165.7372
18 DANCES WITH SMOKE BARBEQUE 165.0972
19 Big Bite BBQ 163.9884
20 Jeremiah Johnson Mountain Man BBQ 163.9772
21 ONW BBQ Company 162.2628
22 SMOKIN TIMBERS NORTHWEST 162.2284
23 J&C BBQ 162.2284
24 Old Dirty Basters 159.9768
25 BBQ Bros 154.2284
26 Greenhorn Smokehouse 150.2060
27 Northwest Smokehouse 141.0744

Brisket

27 entries · top 179.4400 · median 163.9656

#TeamScore
1 MUDVILLE BBQ 179.4400
2 Small Axe BBQ 178.8572
3 SMOKIN TIMBERS NORTHWEST 174.2628
4 RJs Smokehouse 173.1084
5 SON OF SMOKE 172.0228
6 CROOKED PIGS 170.8228
7 Jeremiah Johnson Mountain Man BBQ 168.5484
8 Bearded Boar BBQ 166.8228
9 BOOTIES BBQ 166.8228
10 DANCES WITH SMOKE BARBEQUE 166.2400
11 HOGGERQ 165.6684
12 Rob's Smokin' & Grillin' 165.1316
13 BBQ Bros 164.5256
14 THE CALIFORNIA GRILL BILLIES 163.9656
15 Old Dirty Basters 163.4056
16 503 Backyard BBQ 161.7028
17 J&C BBQ 159.3944
18 Big Bite BBQ 159.3600
19 Gladiator BBQ 158.8572
20 WARPIG BBQ & SAUSAGE CO. 155.9884
21 PRISON BREAK BBQ 155.4056
22 Elkhorn BBQ 155.3716
23 Locked Up BBQ 153.1200
24 ONW BBQ Company 151.9428
25 Smokeshow BBQ 149.6800
26 Greenhorn Smokehouse 131.3944
27 Northwest Smokehouse 124.4572

Ancillary categories

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.

Ancillary — Mac&Cheese

14 entries · top 172.0228 · median 166.8286

#TeamScore
1 ONW BBQ Company 172.0228
2 Smokeshow BBQ 169.6800
3 HOGGERQ 169.1428
4 CROOKED PIGS 168.6400
5 Bearded Boar BBQ 168.5256
6 Jeremiah Johnson Mountain Man BBQ 167.9656
7 Greenhorn Smokehouse 167.4172
8 J&C BBQ 166.2400
9 Small Axe BBQ 160.6172
10 SON OF SMOKE 160.5256
11 Big Bite BBQ 160.0000
12 Gladiator BBQ 156.5140
13 Northwest Smokehouse 156.0000
14 Elkhorn BBQ 155.9200

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