WINGS 4 WATER 2023 (COMPETITOR SERIES)
2023-09-14 · Lee's Summit, MO · 📍 10201 View High Dr
Reps: BUNNY TUTTLE, RICH TUTTLE
Grand Champion: KC TRIAL LAW (173.1772) · 37 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 E.R. BBQ
Entries
37
0 judged meats · 1 ancillary
Top score
173.1772
Winning margin
0.0456
GC over RC
Field average
149.68
median 160.59
Perfect 180s
0
Top-10 cutoff
168.5484
10th place overall
Field spread
153.1772
winner to last place
How hot was the win?
Top 100%
beats 0% of 58 Competitor Series wins in the data
Traveled in
3%
of the 37 teams with a home region came from outside MO
Form held
Weak
ρ = 0.08 between pre-contest rating and finish
Field strength
1512
avg power rating going in · stronger than 16% of contests
Storylines
🪒 A razor-thin finish
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.0456 points — closer than 94% of every championship in the data.
🃏 An upset on the books
KC TRIAL LAW came in rated below the field's top team, MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 20-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Score curves (score by finishing position — steep cliffs mean a spread field, flat lines a knife fight)
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)
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Competitor Series
Overall
37 entries · top 173.1772 · median 160.5944
Ancillary categories
Run by the organizers alongside the sanctioned contest. These are judged on their own terms and do not count toward the overall score, so they're kept out of the meat stats above.
Competitor Series — Wings
37 entries · top 173.1772 · median 160.5944