Big BBQ Bash
2025-06-20 – 2025-06-21 · Maryville, TN · 📍 2003 E. Broadway Ave. · State championship
Reps: CONNIE AMIDEI, JONATHAN AMIDEI · Prize money: $10,000.00
Grand Champion: Alpine Smoke Works (707.4056) · 26 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 DANG GOOD BBQ
Entries
Top score
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Field average
Perfect 180s
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
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Prize money
Double threats
How hot was the win?
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🔥 A day of perfect scores
3 perfect 180s were scored at this contest.
📸 Photo finishes
Chicken places 4–5: HalaQyah BBQ and BROTHER IN LAW BBQ TEAM - NC tied on 175.4172 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 5–6: BROTHER IN LAW BBQ TEAM - NC and DANG GOOD BBQ tied on 175.4172 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 6–7: DANG GOOD BBQ and BAD BRAD'S BBQ tied on 175.4172 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
🛡️ Back to defend
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: Rooters-N-Tooters TN (won 2024).
🃏 An upset on the books
ALPINE SMOKE WORKS came in rated below the field's top team, ROOTERS-N-TOOTERS TN, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 9-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
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)
Score distribution
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)
Where the field came from (home regions on file)
This contest over the years full contest page →
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-24 | Maryville, TN | 31 | 701.7260 | UNDER THE RADAR | CONTAGIOUS Q | |
| 2022-06-24 | Maryville, TN | 2003 E. Broadway Avenue | 29 | 700.5028 | Bad Rooster BBQ | Organizer Portal |
| 2023-06-23 | Maryville, TN | 2003 E. Broadway Avenue | 36 | 714.2628 | Swig-N-Pig | ROOTERS-N-TOOTERS TN |
| 2024-06-21 | Maryville, TN | 2003 E. Broadway Avenue | 33 | 705.0856 | Rooters-N-Tooters TN | Glamping Grillers |
| 2025-06-20 ← this one | Maryville, TN | 2003 E. Broadway Ave. | 26 | 707.4056 | Alpine Smoke Works | DANG GOOD BBQ |
| 2026-09-25 | Townsend, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 178.8572 | 175.4172 | 174.2628 |
| Pork Ribs | 180.0000 | 176.5600 | 173.1200 |
| Pork | 178.8572 | 174.2628 | 171.9772 |
| Brisket | 180.0000 | 176.5600 | 170.2744 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
26 entries · top 707.4056 · median 681.9026
Chicken
26 entries · top 178.8572 · median 172.2800
Pork Ribs
26 entries · top 180.0000 · median 171.4000 · 🔥 perfect 180
Pork
26 entries · top 178.8572 · median 171.1142
Brisket
26 entries · top 180.0000 · median 168.5256 · 🔥 perfect 180