2022-10-22 – 2022-10-23 · Westminster, CO · 📍 Downtown Westminster · State championship
Reps: BRIAN MOORE, DEL ANDERSON · Prize money: $10,000.00
Grand Champion: Heifers, Butts, & Clucks BBQ (690.8116) · 31 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Big Daddy's Backyard 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 97% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.0344 points — closer than 97% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 89 times in 100
Heifers, Butts, & Clucks BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, SLAPS BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 11-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 2 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.
This was Heifers, Butts, & Clucks BBQ's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 16th tracked contest.
Pork places 5–6: 3 LIL' MACS BBQ and Bushmaster BBQ tied on 172.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 2–3: Needs More Cowbell BBQ and HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ tied on 177.1428 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 9–10: 3 LIL' MACS BBQ and BURNT TREES BBQ tied on 170.8228 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 178.2972 | 175.4172 | 171.9772 |
| Pork Ribs | 178.8572 | 173.1544 | 170.8228 |
| Pork | 177.7372 | 172.0000 | 170.8228 |
| Brisket | 179.4400 | 174.2628 | 170.8228 |
31 entries · top 690.8116 · median 670.7656
31 entries · top 178.2972 · median 169.6800
31 entries · top 178.8572 · median 168.5600
31 entries · top 177.7372 · median 168.5372
31 entries · top 179.4400 · median 167.4172