Oct 21–22, 2022 · Westminster, CO · 📍 Downtown Westminster · State championship
Reps: Brian Moore, Del Anderson · Prize money: $10,000
BURNT TREES BBQ won Grand Champion at the Meat Scream BBQ Competition-Day 1 on October 21, 2022 in Westminster, CO at Downtown Westminster, scoring 692.4800 in a field of 32 teams. PORKY BUTTS BBQ took Reserve Grand Champion with 691.9200. Category winners: Chicken — BURNT TREES BBQ (180.0000); Pork Ribs — BURNT TREES BBQ (177.7028); Pork — BACKDRAFT BBQ (176.0116); Brisket — HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ (177.7144).
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 91% of the 4,710 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.5600 points — closer than 91% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 90 times in 100
BURNT TREES BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, SLAPS BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 10-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
First to fifth in the overall standings covered just 4.5484 points — 2 teams sat within a single point of the lead.
Chicken places 5–6: ROCKET BOYS PYRO BBQ and LOST WEEKEND GRILL tied on 171.9656 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 8–9: WYO SMOKE SHOW and Bull-B-Que tied on 170.8228 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 2–3: 3 LIL' MACS BBQ and PORKY BUTTS BBQ tied on 177.1544 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
BURNT TREES BBQ won Chicken, Pork Ribs — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
BURNT TREES BBQ took the title on 2 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was brisket at 18th.
1 perfect 180 was scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180 | 171.9656 | 170.8112 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.7028 | 176.5600 | 169.6800 |
| Pork | 176.0116 | 171.9656 | 170.2856 |
| Brisket | 177.7144 | 173.7028 | 169.1084 |
32 entries · top 692.4800 · median 668.7370
32 entries · top 180 · median 169.3942 · 🔥 perfect 180
32 entries · top 177.7028 · median 166.8228
32 entries · top 176.0116 · median 167.6800
32 entries · top 177.7144 · median 166.5314