These are the Master-series boards. The Backyard series keeps its own record board, scored out of 360.
31 all-time KCBS records — every one with a holder, a number, and the date it was set, read out of 4 scored contests and 696 result rows. Beat one and you appear here the next morning.
Showing the EU record book — every record below counts only contests held in EU. Records that can't honestly be cut by state are left out rather than shown with their national holder: power ratings, career streaks and Team of the Year are computed over a team's whole career, wherever they cooked it.
The biggest — and smallest — numbers anybody has ever put in front of six judges.
BRITISH BULLDOG BBQat EUregio BBQ Festival 20 Sep 2014
21-team field · won the contest
Four meats, six judges, one afternoon. The biggest total anybody has ever assembled.
SOUTHERN DUTCH BBQat Ruhrpott BBQ 10 Oct 2014
won the category with it
The best chicken anybody has ever turned in. 180 is the ceiling — every judge at the table handing back a nine — so a tie goes to whoever got there first.
THE EUROPEAN ALLSTAR BARBECUE TEAMat Smoke in the North 2 Aug 2014
won the category with it
The best pork ribs anybody has ever turned in. 180 is the ceiling — every judge at the table handing back a nine — so a tie goes to whoever got there first.
PUREBBQat BBQ Society Cook-Off 18 Oct 2014
won the category with it
The best pork anybody has ever turned in. 180 is the ceiling — every judge at the table handing back a nine — so a tie goes to whoever got there first.
LETZQat Smoke in the North 2 Aug 2014
won the category with it
The best brisket anybody has ever turned in. 180 is the ceiling — every judge at the table handing back a nine — so a tie goes to whoever got there first.
BUNCH OF SWINESat Ruhrpott BBQ 10 Oct 2014
finished 2nd, behind MISS PIGGY'S U.K.
A day this good takes a Grand Championship almost anywhere. These are the ones that ran into somebody having a better one.
MISS PIGGY'S U.K.at BBQ Society Cook-Off 18 Oct 2014
and still beat 21 other teams
The days the judges gave nothing away. Somebody still had to win, and this is the smallest number that ever did it in a real field.
BBQ Society Cook-Off 18 Oct 2014
22 teams · won with 669.6344
What it cost to walk. At these contests a total that wins most weekends was only good enough for tenth.
BBQ Society Cook-Off 18 Oct 2014
22 teams · top score 669.6344
Judging tables are not interchangeable. At these contests the whole field scored high — not just the winner.
Smoke in the North 2 Aug 2014
15 teams · even the win only took 675.3600
The other end of the same measurement: the contests where hardly anybody got a good card all day.
BRITISH BULLDOG BBQat EUregio BBQ Festival 20 Sep 2014
over MISS PIGGY'S U.K.
Not a contest so much as an exhibition — the runner-up in each of these was closer to tenth than to the winner.
THE EUROPEAN ALLSTAR BARBECUE TEAMat Smoke in the North 2 Aug 2014
over GHOST BARBECUE
A whole weekend — four meats, twenty-four judging cards — decided by a rounding error.
Grand Championships, reserve finishes, dynasties and droughts.
MISS PIGGY'S U.K. 18 Oct 2014
from 3 contests · first in 2014
The headline record of the sport: how many times a team has walked away with the whole thing.
BUNCH OF SWINES 10 Oct 2014
from 2 contests · 0 titles
Held jointly by 4 — nobody has beaten it.
Second overall is the hardest place to finish. These teams have done it more than anybody.
MISS PIGGY'S U.K. 18 Oct 2014
the 2014 season
The best year anybody has ever had. Four in a season is a career year; these went past it.
MISS PIGGY'S U.K. 18 Oct 2014
2 titles in all
A dynasty at one contest is one kind of record. Winning at thirty different ones is another kind entirely.
MISS PIGGY'S U.K.at Ruhrpott BBQ 10 Oct 2014
won it with 678.2284
Every Grand Championship counts the same in the standings. Not every one means beating this many people.
MISS PIGGY'S U.K.at Ruhrpott BBQ 10 Oct 2014
the title finally came in 2014
Proof it is worth going back. Every team here cooked for years before the call finally came.
MISS PIGGY'S U.K. 18 Oct 2014
2014 → 2014 · 2 titles
Staying good is harder than getting good. These teams were winning contests more than a decade apart.
The four meats: who wins them, and who has been handed a flawless card.
LETZQ 10 Oct 2014
across 2 of the four meats
Every category win is a walk to the stage. This is the longest walk in the sport.
LETZQ 10 Oct 2014
the 2014 season
One team, one year, and a stack of first-place calls that would furnish most careers.
LETZQat Smoke in the North 2 Aug 2014
Brisket · 2 Aug 2014
Where the 180 club starts. These are the oldest perfect cards anywhere in the data.
Longevity — the teams who keep turning up, and keep turning it in.
LETZQ 18 Oct 2014
2014 → 2014
Before anything else, competition barbecue is showing up. Nobody has shown up more often than this.
LETZQ 18 Oct 2014
4 contests, 2014 → 2014
Held jointly by 10 or more — nobody has beaten it.
Not just a long career — a busy one, season after season, with no quiet years in the middle.
LETZQ 18 Oct 2014
the 2014 season
A season spent almost entirely in a parking lot somewhere, next to a smoker.
PUREBBQ 18 Oct 2014
from 3 contests
Held jointly by 3 — nobody has beaten it.
The measure of a team that is always in it — not always winning, but always there at the end of the day.
MISS PIGGY'S U.K.at Ruhrpott Bbq 10 Oct 2014
2014 → 2014 · won it 1×
Held jointly by 10 or more — nobody has beaten it.
The contest a team never misses — on the calendar in ink, every single year.
Records held by the contests themselves rather than by the teams.
Ruhrpott BBQ 10 Oct 2014
won with 678.2284
The largest gathering of smokers the data has ever recorded in one place.
Smoke In The North 2 Aug 2014
2014 → 2014 · about 15 teams a year
Held jointly by 4 — nobody has beaten it.
The institutions. These contests have been feeding judges for as long as the data goes back.
2 Aug 2014 2 Aug 2014
across 1 states and provinces
Held jointly by 4 — nobody has beaten it.
One Saturday, this many contests, every one of them lighting a fire at the same hour.
The 2014 season 18 Oct 2014
across 1 states and provinces
The high-water mark for the sport itself — the year the calendar was fullest.
| Team | Category | Contest |
|---|---|---|
| LETZQ | Brisket | Smoke in the North 2014-08-02 |
| Year | Series | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Backyard | DAWGS BBQ 🏆 | 1356 |
| 2026 ↗ | Master | B'S QUE 🏆 | 2607 |
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | Electro-Que-ted 🏆 | 1414 |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | GETTIN' BASTED 🏆 | 2826 |
| 2024 ↗ | Backyard | WEEZ'S GROOVIN' BBQ 🏆 | 1404 |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | CHUNKY BBQ 🏆 | 2734 |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | JANKY LEG BBQ 🏆 | 2773 |
| 2022 ↗ | Master | Uncle Pig's Barbeque Pit 🏆 | 2761 |
| 2021 ↗ | Master | GETTIN' BASTED 🏆 | 2804 |
| 2020 ↗ | Master | GETTIN' BASTED 🏆 | 2670 |
| 2019 ↗ | Master | B-S BBQ OUTLAWS 🏆 | 2774 |
| 2018 ↗ | Master | GETTIN' BASTED 🏆 | 2840 |
| 2017 ↗ | Master | CLARK CREW BBQ 🏆 | 2850 |
| 2016 ↗ | Master | PORKY BUTTS BBQ 🏆 | 2846 |
| 2015 ↗ | Master | CLARK CREW BBQ 🏆 | 2843 |
| 2014 ↗ | Master | WARREN COUNTY PORK CHOPPERS 🏆 | 2936 |
| 2013 ↗ | Master | WARREN COUNTY PORK CHOPPERS 🏆 | 2940 |
| 2013 ↗ | Master | TRUEBUD BBQ 🏆 | 2940 |
| Category | Entries | Avg score | Avg winning score | Perfect 180s | 180s per 1,000 entries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brisket toughest room | 115 | 156.67 | 176.01 | 1 | 8.7 |
| Pork Ribs | 116 | 158.60 | 172.59 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicken | 115 | 158.85 | 173.99 | 0 | 0 |
| Pork | 115 | 159.69 | 175.14 | 0 | 0 |
Sorted by average score — the category at the top scores lowest across the whole field, which usually means the judges are hardest to please there.