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Art of Barbeque

Jun 30 – Jul 1, 2023 · Sterling, CO · 📍 315 Main Street · State championship

Reps: Brian Moore, Michael Winter · Prize money: $10,000

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HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ
699.4516 · Master Series — Overall
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Colorado Bulldawg BBQ
697.1544 · Master Series — Overall
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POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP
697.1088 · Master Series — Overall

HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ won Grand Champion at the Art of Barbeque on June 30, 2023 in Sterling, CO at 315 Main Street, scoring 699.4516 in a field of 35 teams. Colorado Bulldawg BBQ took Reserve Grand Champion with 697.1544. Category winners: Chicken — Colorado Bulldawg BBQ (180.0000); Pork Ribs — POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP (180.0000); Pork — BULL SLAP BBQ (179.4400); Brisket — WHEN PIGS DIE (180.0000).

The contest at a glance (read off the scored boards)

How the field scored

Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.

How the meats cooked

Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.

  • Chicken 180 🔥
  • Pork Ribs 180 🔥
  • Pork 179.44
  • Brisket 180 🔥
141.09 180

Entries

35
4 judged meats

Top score

699.4516

Winning margin

2.2972
GC over RC

Field average

672.13
597.02699.45
median 673.67 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

3 🔥
WHEN PIGS DIE (Brisket), Colorado Bulldawg BBQ (Chicken), POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP (Pork Ribs)

Tightest race

Pork
4.0228 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

685.0628
597.02699.45
10th place overall

Field spread

102.4340
winner to last place

Prize money

$10,000
on the line

Most consistent

HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ
avg finish 5.75 across 4 meats

Double threats

5
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Brisket
won by 2.8572 pts — WHEN PIGS DIE

How hot was the win?

Top 34%
beats 66% of 4714 Master Series wins in the data

Form held

Strong
ρ = -0.64 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1,607
avg power rating going in · stronger than 82% of contests

Top-rated in the field

GETTIN' BASTED
rated 1990 pre-contest

Storylines (4 found in this contest's numbers)

Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.

An upset on the books

11-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings

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, GETTIN' BASTED, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 11-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.

  • champion 1628
  • top seed 1990

Won without a category win

4 of 4 meats called to the stage

HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 4 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.

  • Chicken 5th
  • Pork Ribs 9th
  • Pork 7th
  • Brisket 2nd

A day of perfect scores

3 perfect 180s

3 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.

  • WHEN PIGS DIE · Brisket
  • Colorado Bulldawg BBQ · Chicken
  • POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP · Pork Ribs

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)

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)

What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)

Category1st5th10th
Chicken180174.2744171.9772
Pork Ribs180174.9028173.1428
Pork179.4400175.4172173.7028
Brisket180175.4056172.5600

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

35 entries · top 699.4516 · median 673.6684

#TeamScore
1 HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ 699.4516
2 Colorado Bulldawg BBQ 697.1544
3 POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP 697.1088
4 Meat Machine BBQ 689.0512
5 SMOKIN' BOXERS BBQ 687.8972
6 Meat Candy Q 687.3600
7 Bushmaster BBQ 686.7428
8 BULL SLAP BBQ 685.6460
9 GETTIN' BASTED 685.6344
10 AMERICAN HEROES BBQ 685.0628
11 Smoked & Furious 684.5376
12 GRILLIN' BEAVERS 682.7424
13 4 LEGS UP BBQ 682.1712
14 B' MACKIN BBQ 679.9200
15 Rhythm n QUE 679.8856
16 PROUD SOULS BARBECUE 676.4684
17 Frank's BBQ Trading Post 675.9544
18 At Ease 673.6684
19 Needs More Cowbell BBQ 673.6000
20 WHEN PIGS DIE 672.9940
21 ROCKET BOYS PYRO BBQ 671.8740
22 UNCLE J'S 670.1140
23 Fire & Forget BBQ 668.5144
24 Bull-B-Que 667.9776
25 BRACKEN RACKS BBQ 666.1372
26 Brinkerhoff BBQ 664.4800
27 SCORE ONE SMOKIN' 663.2340
28 Hooligans Barbecue 661.5656
29 Cluster Cluck Barbecue 657.5540
30 Blind Butt Limitless 655.9200
31 Monarchbbq 654.6512
32 BOVINE INTERVENTION 652.4112
33 Happy Burnt Endings 650.6512
34 ROCKIN' D BARBEQUE 639.3024
35 Fischer's BBQ 597.0176

Chicken

35 entries · top 180 · median 169.6684 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 Colorado Bulldawg BBQ 180 🔥
2 POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP 177.7144
3 BOVINE INTERVENTION 176.5828
4 BULL SLAP BBQ 175.4288
5 HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ 174.2744
6 Meat Candy Q 174.2628
7 Meat Machine BBQ 173.7144
8 At Ease 173.7144
9 GETTIN' BASTED 172.5600
10 BRACKEN RACKS BBQ 171.9772
11 B' MACKIN BBQ 171.4056
12 Hooligans Barbecue 171.4056
13 4 LEGS UP BBQ 170.8228
14 Frank's BBQ Trading Post 170.2744
15 ROCKIN' D BARBEQUE 169.6912
16 GRILLIN' BEAVERS 169.6684
17 Rhythm n QUE 169.6684
18 UNCLE J'S 169.6684
19 Bull-B-Que 167.4172
20 Needs More Cowbell BBQ 167.3828
21 Smoked & Furious 166.2516
22 AMERICAN HEROES BBQ 165.1200
23 Cluster Cluck Barbecue 165.0972
24 SMOKIN' BOXERS BBQ 165.0972
25 WHEN PIGS DIE 165.0856
26 Happy Burnt Endings 164.5372
27 Bushmaster BBQ 163.9428
28 Fire & Forget BBQ 160.5716
29 SCORE ONE SMOKIN' 160.5028
30 Monarchbbq 159.3600
31 ROCKET BOYS PYRO BBQ 158.8112
32 Brinkerhoff BBQ 158.2628
33 Fischer's BBQ 157.1432
34 Blind Butt Limitless 157.1084
35 PROUD SOULS BARBECUE 156.4912

Pork Ribs

35 entries · top 180 · median 169.1316 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP 180 🔥
2 AMERICAN HEROES BBQ 178.2972
3 SMOKIN' BOXERS BBQ 177.7144
4 GRILLIN' BEAVERS 177.7028
5 Frank's BBQ Trading Post 174.9028
6 Bushmaster BBQ 174.2744
7 Colorado Bulldawg BBQ 173.7488
8 4 LEGS UP BBQ 173.7028
9 HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ 173.1544
10 Fire & Forget BBQ 173.1428
11 PROUD SOULS BARBECUE 173.1200
12 Meat Machine BBQ 172.5484
13 At Ease 172
14 Rhythm n QUE 171.4172
15 Smoked & Furious 171.4172
16 Bull-B-Que 170.2744
17 Brinkerhoff BBQ 169.6800
18 Meat Candy Q 169.1316
19 ROCKET BOYS PYRO BBQ 168.5372
20 GETTIN' BASTED 167.9772
21 SCORE ONE SMOKIN' 167.3828
22 B' MACKIN BBQ 166.2744
23 UNCLE J'S 166.2400
24 BRACKEN RACKS BBQ 165.1316
25 WHEN PIGS DIE 163.9656
26 BULL SLAP BBQ 163.9544
27 Happy Burnt Endings 163.9428
28 Monarchbbq 162.8000
29 Cluster Cluck Barbecue 161.6800
30 ROCKIN' D BARBEQUE 161.1200
31 Needs More Cowbell BBQ 160.5256
32 Hooligans Barbecue 159.3944
33 BOVINE INTERVENTION 159.3828
34 Blind Butt Limitless 157.6916
35 Fischer's BBQ 151.3944

Pork

35 entries · top 179.4400 · median 167.9772

#TeamScore
1 BULL SLAP BBQ 179.4400
2 PROUD SOULS BARBECUE 176.5944
3 Colorado Bulldawg BBQ 176
4 Needs More Cowbell BBQ 175.4288
5 B' MACKIN BBQ 175.4172
6 Bushmaster BBQ 175.4056
7 HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ 174.8800
8 Blind Butt Limitless 174.8456
9 Cluster Cluck Barbecue 174.2856
10 UNCLE J'S 173.7028
11 Smoked & Furious 172.5600
12 Rhythm n QUE 171.9772
13 Meat Candy Q 170.8228
14 Meat Machine BBQ 170.8112
15 SMOKIN' BOXERS BBQ 169.6800
16 GETTIN' BASTED 169.6800
17 AMERICAN HEROES BBQ 168.5372
18 POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP 167.9772
19 Frank's BBQ Trading Post 167.9772
20 Monarchbbq 167.9656
21 Happy Burnt Endings 167.4056
22 ROCKET BOYS PYRO BBQ 167.3828
23 Brinkerhoff BBQ 166.8456
24 SCORE ONE SMOKIN' 166.8228
25 BRACKEN RACKS BBQ 166.2284
26 Fire & Forget BBQ 165.6800
27 4 LEGS UP BBQ 165.6800
28 Bull-B-Que 163.9888
29 At Ease 163.9656
30 WHEN PIGS DIE 163.9428
31 GRILLIN' BEAVERS 162.8112
32 BOVINE INTERVENTION 162.2284
33 Hooligans Barbecue 158.8000
34 ROCKIN' D BARBEQUE 153.1084
35 Fischer's BBQ 141.0856

Brisket

35 entries · top 180 · median 169.1200 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 WHEN PIGS DIE 180 🔥
2 HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ 177.1428
3 ROCKET BOYS PYRO BBQ 177.1428
4 GETTIN' BASTED 175.4172
5 SMOKIN' BOXERS BBQ 175.4056
6 Smoked & Furious 174.3088
7 Meat Candy Q 173.1428
8 Bushmaster BBQ 173.1200
9 AMERICAN HEROES BBQ 173.1084
10 GRILLIN' BEAVERS 172.5600
11 Meat Machine BBQ 171.9772
12 Hooligans Barbecue 171.9656
13 4 LEGS UP BBQ 171.9656
14 POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP 171.4172
15 Needs More Cowbell BBQ 170.2628
16 PROUD SOULS BARBECUE 170.2628
17 Brinkerhoff BBQ 169.6916
18 Fire & Forget BBQ 169.1200
19 SCORE ONE SMOKIN' 168.5256
20 Colorado Bulldawg BBQ 167.4056
21 BULL SLAP BBQ 166.8228
22 Rhythm n QUE 166.8228
23 B' MACKIN BBQ 166.8228
24 Bull-B-Que 166.2972
25 Blind Butt Limitless 166.2744
26 Monarchbbq 164.5256
27 At Ease 163.9884
28 Frank's BBQ Trading Post 162.8000
29 BRACKEN RACKS BBQ 162.8000
30 UNCLE J'S 160.5028
31 Cluster Cluck Barbecue 156.4912
32 ROCKIN' D BARBEQUE 155.3828
33 Happy Burnt Endings 154.7656
34 BOVINE INTERVENTION 154.2172
35 Fischer's BBQ 147.3944

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