2023-03-17 – 2023-03-18 · Olathe, KS · 📍 21151 W. 167th St · State championship
Reps: DAVE ROGERS, FORREST BRUCE, LARRY HADLEY, PEG ROGERS · Prize money: $10,000.00
Grand Champion: Bull Creek BBQ (706.8344) · 68 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Colorado Bulldawg 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.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 83 times in 100
BULL CREEK BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, CLARK CREW BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 17-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
BULL CREEK BBQ won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 3 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.
Chicken places 1–2: WAG'S BACKWOODS BBQ and BULL CREEK BBQ tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 5–6: Damn Fine Beef & Swine and PARTS 'R' SMOKIN tied on 177.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 6–7: PARTS 'R' SMOKIN and Cow Creek BBQ tied on 177.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
Bigger than 95% of the 5,410 contests in the data
68 teams made this a bigger field than 95% of every contest tracked.
2 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 177.7028 | 176.5600 |
| Pork Ribs | 178.2972 | 176.5716 | 175.4172 |
| Pork | 179.4400 | 177.7028 | 175.4400 |
| Brisket | 177.7028 | 174.8572 | 174.2628 |
68 entries · top 706.8344 · median 677.9086
68 entries · top 180.0000 · median 169.4058 · 🔥 perfect 180
68 entries · top 178.2972 · median 169.3942
67 entries · top 179.4400 · median 170.2628
67 entries · top 177.7028 · median 168.5484