TN River BBQ Battle
2022-09-23 – 2022-09-24 · Saltillo, TN · 📍 Main Street · State championship
Reps: MARIA LOHMAN, WAYNE LOHMAN · Prize money: $13,775.00
Grand Champion: GLAMPING GRILLERS (706.2516) · 16 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Uncle Kenny's Take-Away
Entries
Top score
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Field average
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
Field spread
Prize money
Double threats
How hot was the win?
Traveled in
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🧹 A double category winner
Glamping Grillers won Pork Ribs, Brisket — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
📸 Photo finishes
Chicken places 1–2: Kith n' Kin and Glamping Grillers tied on 175.4172 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 2–3: Glamping Grillers and Uncle Kenny's Take-Away tied on 175.4172 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 5–6: TENNESSEE SMOKE SHOWIN and BIG G BBQ tied on 174.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
🛡️ Back to defend
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: Q-Bones BBQ (won 2021).
🃏 An upset on the books
Glamping Grillers came in rated below the field's top team, Q-BONES BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 26-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)
This contest over the years full contest page →
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-24 | Savannah, TN | 215 Ziffel Circle | 10 | 694.8344 | Q-Bones BBQ | Organizer Portal |
| 2022-09-23 ← this one | Saltillo, TN | Main Street | 16 | 706.2516 | GLAMPING GRILLERS | Uncle Kenny's Take-Away |
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 175.4172 | 174.2628 | 168.5256 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.7028 | 171.9772 | 168.0000 |
| Pork | 177.7144 | 173.1316 | 171.4172 |
| Brisket | 180.0000 | 173.1200 | 166.2400 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
16 entries · top 706.2516 · median 681.5942
Chicken
16 entries · top 175.4172 · median 168.5256
Pork Ribs
16 entries · top 177.7028 · median 168.5486
Pork
16 entries · top 177.7144 · median 171.9714
Brisket
16 entries · top 180.0000 · median 167.9600 · 🔥 perfect 180