Defending champion
Smoking Butcher won the most recent scored edition (2025-10-18).
- Oct 18, 2025
Oct 17, 2026 · Fossalta di Piave, Italy · ITALY
📅 Coming up — Oct 17, 2026 in Fossalta di Piave, Italy. Results appear here once KCBS posts them after the contest.
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The Fossalta is on Fire BBQ Competition (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) 2026 is a Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) sanctioned barbecue contest scheduled for October 17, 2026 in Fossalta di Piave , 30020. Full results, category by category, are posted here once KCBS publishes them. This is the 3rd of 4 editions of this contest on record; the 2025 edition was won by Smoking Butcher; the next is scheduled for October 17, 2026.
No scores yet — here is what the record book says about the contest they are walking into.
Smoking Butcher won the most recent scored edition (2025-10-18).
The highest overall score here is 180.0000, set by Smoking Butcher in 2025.
This contest has averaged 16 teams across 2 scored editions.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
2 of 2 tracked editions
Smoking Butcher has won this contest 2 times across its 2 tracked editions.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 2025 | Fossalta di Piave | Piazza IV Novembre | 16 | 176.5600 | Smoking Butcher |
| Oct 18, 2025 | Fossalta di Piave | Piazza IV Novembre | 16 | 180 | Smoking Butcher |
| Oct 17, 2026 ← this one | Fossalta di Piave | — | — | — | — |
| Oct 17, 2026 | Fossalta di Piave | — | — | — | — |