These are the Master-series boards. The Backyard series keeps its own record board, scored out of 360.
39 all-time KCBS records — every one with a holder, a number, and the date it was set, read out of 6 scored contests and 492 result rows. Beat one and you appear here the next morning.
Showing the LT record book — every record below counts only contests held in LT. 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.
BBQ Symphonyat Twin Smoke 15 May 2026
23-team field · won the contest
Four meats, six judges, one afternoon. The biggest total anybody has ever assembled.
No Nameat Twin Smoke 15 May 2026
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.
Sweaty Hogsat Twin Smoke 11 Sep 2021
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.
BBQ Symphonyat Twin Smoke 15 May 2026
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.
Sweaty Hogsat Twin Smoke 11 Sep 2021
won the category with it
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten 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.
BBQ Hot Yardat Twin Smoke 15 May 2026
finished 2nd, behind BBQ Symphony
A day this good takes a Grand Championship almost anywhere. These are the ones that ran into somebody having a better one.
Sweaty Hogsat Twin Smoke 2 Jul 2022
and still beat 14 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.
Twin Smoke 15 May 2026
23 teams · won with 701.1316
What it cost to walk. At these contests a total that wins most weekends was only good enough for tenth.
Twin Smoke 15 May 2026
23 teams · top score 701.1316
Judging tables are not interchangeable. At these contests the whole field scored high — not just the winner.
Twin Smoke 2 Jul 2022
15 teams · even the win only took 666.3200
The other end of the same measurement: the contests where hardly anybody got a good card all day.
BUNCH OF SWINESat Twin Smoke 20 May 2023
over Insomnia BBQ Team
Not a contest so much as an exhibition — the runner-up in each of these was closer to tenth than to the winner.
SMOKING FINNS FIat Twin Smoke 18 May 2024
over Clean Smoke BBQ
A whole weekend — four meats, twenty-four judging cards — decided by a rounding error.
Grand Championships, reserve finishes, dynasties and droughts.
Sweaty Hogs 2 Jul 2022
from 2 contests · first in 2021
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
The headline record of the sport: how many times a team has walked away with the whole thing.
Insomnia BBQ Team 20 May 2023
from 4 contests · 0 titles
Second overall is the hardest place to finish. These teams have done it more than anybody.
Insomnia BBQ Team 20 May 2023
across 4 contests, still waiting
The cruellest record in the book. Every team here has stood on the stage second, and never once first.
Sweaty Hogsat Twin Smoke 2 Jul 2022
won 2021–2022
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
The contest a team has made their own — turning up every year and taking it home again.
Sweaty Hogsat Twin Smoke 2 Jul 2022
2021–2022, straight
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
Defending a title once is an achievement. Nobody on this board gave one up willingly.
BBQ Symphonyat Twin Smoke 15 May 2026
won it with 701.1316
Every Grand Championship counts the same in the standings. Not every one means beating this many people.
SMOKING FINNS FIat Twin Smoke 18 May 2024
the title finally came in 2024
Proof it is worth going back. Every team here cooked for years before the call finally came.
SMOKING FINNS FI 17 May 2025
2024 → 2025 · 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.
Insomnia BBQ Team 20 May 2023
across 3 of the four meats
Every category win is a walk to the stage. This is the longest walk in the sport.
BUNCH OF SWINES 20 May 2023
the 2023 season
One team, one year, and a stack of first-place calls that would furnish most careers.
No Nameat Twin Smoke 15 May 2026
Chicken · 15 May 2026
Where the 180 club starts. These are the oldest perfect cards anywhere in the data.
Twin Smoke 15 May 2026
shared by 2 teams in a field of 23
Some tables run hot. At these contests the judges handed out flawless cards all afternoon.
Longevity — the teams who keep turning up, and keep turning it in.
Porkmafia 15 May 2026
2022 → 2026
Held jointly by 4 — nobody has beaten it.
Before anything else, competition barbecue is showing up. Nobody has shown up more often than this.
Porkmafia 15 May 2026
5 contests, 2022 → 2026
Held jointly by 4 — nobody has beaten it.
Not just a long career — a busy one, season after season, with no quiet years in the middle.
Meat Smokin' Stories 31 Dec 2025
2021 → 2025, no gaps
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
An unbroken run. Every single year, the rig came back out of the shed.
BBQ Symphony 15 May 2026
the 2026 season · 1 title
Held jointly by 10 or more — nobody has beaten it.
A season spent almost entirely in a parking lot somewhere, next to a smoker.
Smoked Pioneers BBQ Team 15 May 2026
from 5 contests
Held jointly by 2 — 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.
SMOKING FINNS FIat Twin Smoke 15 May 2026
2021 → 2026 · won it 2×
Held jointly by 4 — 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.
Twin Smoke 15 May 2026
won with 701.1316
The largest gathering of smokers the data has ever recorded in one place.
Twin Smoke 15 May 2026
2021 → 2026 · about 16 teams a year
The institutions. These contests have been feeding judges for as long as the data goes back.
Twin Smoke 15 May 2026
6 editions · biggest 23
One big year is a fluke. These contests pull a crowd every single time they run.
Twin Smoke 15 May 2026
from 6 editions with a champion on file
The contests nobody owns. Turn up here and last year counts for nothing.
11 Sep 2021 11 Sep 2021
across 1 states and provinces
Held jointly by 6 — nobody has beaten it.
One Saturday, this many contests, every one of them lighting a fire at the same hour.
The 2021 season 11 Sep 2021
across 1 states and provinces
Held jointly by 6 — nobody has beaten it.
The high-water mark for the sport itself — the year the calendar was fullest.
Somebody has to run the table. These are the ones who have run the most.
ANGELA FISHLOCK 15 May 2026
2022 → 2026
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
The people who make a contest a contest — table captains, score checkers, keepers of the rulebook.
HAYMO GUTWENIGER 11 Sep 2021
the 2021 season
Held jointly by 4 — nobody has beaten it.
Thirty contests in a year means most of a summer spent beside a scoring table.
ANGELA FISHLOCK 15 May 2026
at 5 contests
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
How many separate teams have taken a Grand Championship at a contest this rep was running.
| Team | GCs this season |
|---|---|
| BBQ Symphony | 1 |
| Team | Category | Contest |
|---|---|---|
| No Name | Chicken | Twin Smoke 2026-05-15 |
| BBQ Symphony | Pork | Twin Smoke 2026-05-15 |
| 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 | 96 | 155.93 | 174.18 | 0 | 0 |
| Pork | 96 | 157.76 | 176.58 | 1 | 10.4 |
| Pork Ribs | 96 | 158.97 | 175.43 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicken | 95 | 161.62 | 176.40 | 1 | 10.5 |
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.