37 all-time KCBS records — every one with a holder, a number, and the date it was set, read out of 5 scored contests and 880 result rows. Beat one and you appear here the next morning.
Overall scores are only ever ranked against their own series — Master out of 720, Backyard out of 360 — so the overall-score records here are Master boards unless they say Backyard. The Backyard series keeps a full record board of its own.
State and provincial record books are here; outside North America, every country has its own page under Regions →
Showing the ND record book — every record below counts only contests held in ND. 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.
SHIGGIN & GRINNIN at ND BBQ Championship Sep 27, 2024
47-team field · won the contest
Four meats, six judges, one afternoon. The biggest total anybody has ever assembled.
Eggspert BBQ at ND BBQ Championship May 1, 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.
SPITFIRE at ND BBQ Championship May 1, 2026
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.
BIGG SMOAK BBQ at ND BBQ Championship May 1, 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.
IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ at ND BBQ Championship Oct 3, 2025
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.
SIX BUTT BBQ at ND BBQ Championship May 1, 2026
finished 2nd, behind Porky Butts BBQ
A day this good takes a Grand Championship almost anywhere. These are the ones that ran into somebody having a better one.
BIGG SMOAK BBQ at ND BBQ Championship Oct 3, 2025
and still beat 45 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.
ND BBQ Championship May 1, 2026
71 teams · won with 697.1200
What it cost to walk. At these contests a total that wins most weekends was only good enough for tenth.
ND BBQ Championship May 1, 2026
71 teams · top score 697.1200
Judging tables are not interchangeable. At these contests the whole field scored high — not just the winner.
ND BBQ Championship Sep 27, 2024
47 teams · even the win only took 703.4516
The other end of the same measurement: the contests where hardly anybody got a good card all day.
SHIGGIN & GRINNIN at ND BBQ Championship Sep 27, 2024
over Son of a Boar BBQ
Not a contest so much as an exhibition — the runner-up in each of these was closer to tenth than to the winner.
PORKY BUTTS BBQ at ND BBQ Championship May 1, 2026
over SIX BUTT BBQ
A whole weekend — four meats, twenty-four judging cards — decided by a rounding error.
Grand Championships, reserve finishes, dynasties and droughts.
PORKY BUTTS BBQ May 1, 2026
from 1 contests · first in 2026
Held jointly by 3 — nobody has beaten it.
The headline record of the sport: how many times a team has walked away with the whole thing.
MACHETE BOYS BBQ Oct 3, 2025
from 1 contests · 0 titles
Held jointly by 3 — nobody has beaten it.
Second overall is the hardest place to finish. These teams have done it more than anybody.
PORKY BUTTS BBQ at ND BBQ Championship May 1, 2026
2026–2026, straight
Defending a title once is an achievement. Nobody on this board gave one up willingly.
PORKY BUTTS BBQ at ND BBQ Championship May 1, 2026
won it with 697.1200
Every Grand Championship counts the same in the standings. Not every one means beating this many people.
BIGG SMOAK BBQ at ND BBQ Championship Oct 3, 2025
the title finally came in 2025
Proof it is worth going back. Every team here cooked for years before the call finally came.
BIGG SMOAK BBQ Oct 3, 2025
in 1 state
Held jointly by 3 — nobody has beaten it.
Some contests hand out a state championship alongside the trophy. These teams have collected the most of them.
The four meats: who wins them, and who has been handed a flawless card.
BIGG SMOAK BBQ May 1, 2026
across 1 of the four meats
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
Every category win is a walk to the stage. This is the longest walk in the sport.
NECTAR OF THE HOGS Sep 27, 2024
the 2024 season
Held jointly by 10 or more — nobody has beaten it.
One team, one year, and a stack of first-place calls that would furnish most careers.
IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ at ND BBQ Championship Oct 3, 2025
Brisket · Oct 3, 2025
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.
BIGG SMOAK BBQ May 1, 2026
2024 → 2026
Held jointly by 10 or more — nobody has beaten it.
Before anything else, competition barbecue is showing up. Nobody has shown up more often than this.
BIGG SMOAK BBQ May 1, 2026
5 contests, 2024 → 2026
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.
Ash Kickin' BBQ Dec 31, 2026
2024 → 2026, no gaps
Held jointly by 10 or more — nobody has beaten it.
An unbroken run. Every single year, the rig came back out of the shed.
BIGG SMOAK BBQ Oct 3, 2025
the 2025 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.
BIGG SMOAK BBQ Oct 3, 2025
from 3 contests
Held jointly by 7 — 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.
SHIGGIN & GRINNIN at ND BBQ Championship May 1, 2026
2024 → 2026 · 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.
ND BBQ Championship May 1, 2026
won with 697.1200
The largest gathering of smokers the data has ever recorded in one place.
ND BBQ Championship May 1, 2026
2024 → 2026 · about 45 teams a year
The institutions. These contests have been feeding judges for as long as the data goes back.
ND BBQ Championship May 1, 2026
5 editions · biggest 71
One big year is a fluke. These contests pull a crowd every single time they run.
ND BBQ Championship May 1, 2026
from 5 editions with a champion on file
The contests nobody owns. Turn up here and last year counts for nothing.
ND BBQ Championship May 1, 2026
71 teams cooking for it
What was actually on the table. Listed purses only — KCBS does not publish who took home which slice of it.
Oct 3, 2025 Oct 3, 2025
across 1 states and provinces
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
One Saturday, this many contests, every one of them lighting a fire at the same hour.
The 2025 season Oct 3, 2025
across 1 states and provinces
Held jointly by 2 — 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.
John Scharffbillig May 1, 2026
2024 → 2026
The people who make a contest a contest — table captains, score checkers, keepers of the rulebook.
Larry Voth May 1, 2026
the 2026 season
Thirty contests in a year means most of a summer spent beside a scoring table.
John Scharffbillig May 1, 2026
at 5 contests
How many separate teams have taken a Grand Championship at a contest this rep was running.
| Team | GCs this season |
|---|---|
| PORKY BUTTS BBQ | 1 |
| Team | Category | Contest |
|---|---|---|
| SPITFIRE | Pork Ribs | ND BBQ Championship May 1, 2026 |
| IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ | Brisket | ND BBQ Championship Oct 3, 2025 |
| Year | Series | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Backyard | DAWGS BBQ 🏆 | 1,356 |
| 2026 ↗ | Master | JANKY LEG BBQ 🏆 | 2,682 |
| 2025 ↗ | Backyard | Electro-Que-ted 🏆 | 1,414 |
| 2025 ↗ | Master | GETTIN' BASTED 🏆 | 2,826 |
| 2024 ↗ | Backyard | WEEZ'S GROOVIN' BBQ 🏆 | 1,404 |
| 2024 ↗ | Master | CHUNKY BBQ 🏆 | 2,734 |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | JANKY LEG BBQ 🏆 | 2,773 |
| 2022 ↗ | Master | Uncle Pig's Barbeque Pit 🏆 | 2,761 |
| 2021 ↗ | Master | GETTIN' BASTED 🏆 | 2,804 |
| 2020 ↗ | Master | GETTIN' BASTED 🏆 | 2,670 |
| 2019 ↗ | Master | B-S BBQ OUTLAWS 🏆 | 2,774 |
| 2018 ↗ | Master | GETTIN' BASTED 🏆 | 2,840 |
| 2017 ↗ | Master | CLARK CREW BBQ 🏆 | 2,850 |
| 2016 ↗ | Master | PORKY BUTTS BBQ 🏆 | 2,846 |
| 2015 ↗ | Master | CLARK CREW BBQ 🏆 | 2,843 |
| 2014 ↗ | Master | WARREN COUNTY PORK CHOPPERS 🏆 | 2,936 |
| 2013 ↗ | Master | WARREN COUNTY PORK CHOPPERS 🏆 | 2,940 |
| 2013 ↗ | Master | TRUEBUD BBQ 🏆 | 2,940 |
| Category | Entries | Avg score | Avg winning score | Perfect 180s | 180s per 1,000 entries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brisket toughest room | 164 | 164.66 | 179.43 | 1 | 6.1 |
| Pork Ribs | 224 | 165.77 | 177.95 | 1 | 4.5 |
| Pork | 164 | 166.17 | 178.30 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicken | 164 | 167.29 | 178.48 | 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.