45 all-time KCBS records — every one with a holder, a number, and the date it was set, read out of 19 scored contests and 3,185 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 NH record book — every record below counts only contests held in NH. 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.
FIRE AT THE END OF THE DAY at Granite State BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 1) May 30, 2025
22-team field · won the contest
Four meats, six judges, one afternoon. The biggest total anybody has ever assembled.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA at Granite State BBQ Championship Jun 9, 2018
won the category with it
Held jointly by 3 — nobody has beaten 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.
STUBBORN BULL BBQ at Monadnock Up in Smoke BBQ Fest May 29, 2015
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.
PADDY MCQ'S at Granite State BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 1) May 30, 2025
won the category with it
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten 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.
Uncle Pig's Barbeque Pit at Granite State BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 1) May 30, 2025
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.
PADDY MCQ'S at Granite State BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 2) May 31, 2025
finished 2nd, behind Fire At the End of the Day
A day this good takes a Grand Championship almost anywhere. These are the ones that ran into somebody having a better one.
LO' -N- SLO' BBQ at Rock'n Ribfest NH State BBQ Competition Jun 14, 2013
and still beat 34 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.
Granite State BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 2) May 31, 2025
26 teams · won with 706.2516
What it cost to walk. At these contests a total that wins most weekends was only good enough for tenth.
Operation Up in Smoke Jul 27, 2024
19 teams · top score 693.1316
Judging tables are not interchangeable. At these contests the whole field scored high — not just the winner.
Rock'N RibFest 2015 Jun 20, 2015
16 teams · even the win only took 676.5372
The other end of the same measurement: the contests where hardly anybody got a good card all day.
Pork Butt Paradise at Rock'N RibFest 2015 Jun 20, 2015
over SQUEALING FOR VENGEANCE
Not a contest so much as an exhibition — the runner-up in each of these was closer to tenth than to the winner.
INSANE SWINE BBQ at Monadnock Up In Smoke BBQ Fest Jun 1, 2013
over SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA
A whole weekend — four meats, twenty-four judging cards — decided by a rounding error.
Plus 1 championship where the top two finished dead level on points and the KCBS tiebreaker decided it — counted here rather than listed, because a board of identical 0.0000 margins says nothing about who nearly won what.
Grand Championships, reserve finishes, dynasties and droughts.
FIRE AT THE END OF THE DAY May 31, 2025
from 8 contests · first in 2021
The headline record of the sport: how many times a team has walked away with the whole thing.
PADDY MCQ'S May 31, 2025
from 10 contests · 1 title
Second overall is the hardest place to finish. These teams have done it more than anybody.
FIRE AT THE END OF THE DAY May 31, 2025
the 2025 season
The best year anybody has ever had. Four in a season is a career year; these went past it.
FIRE AT THE END OF THE DAY May 31, 2025
3 titles in all
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
A dynasty at one contest is one kind of record. Winning at thirty different ones is another kind entirely.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA at Granite State BBQ Championship Jun 10, 2017
won 2016–2017
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.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA at Granite State BBQ Championship Jun 10, 2017
2016–2017, straight
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
Defending a title once is an achievement. Nobody on this board gave one up willingly.
STUBBORN BULL BBQ at Monadnock Up in Smoke BBQ Fest May 29, 2015
won it with 686.2628
Every Grand Championship counts the same in the standings. Not every one means beating this many people.
Up-2 BBQ at Granite State BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES Jun 1, 2024
the title finally came in 2024
Proof it is worth going back. Every team here cooked for years before the call finally came.
INSANE SWINE BBQ Jun 8, 2019
2013 → 2019 · 2 titles
Staying good is harder than getting good. These teams were winning contests more than a decade apart.
FIRE AT THE END OF THE DAY May 31, 2025
in 1 state
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.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA May 31, 2025
across 2 of the four meats
Every category win is a walk to the stage. This is the longest walk in the sport.
GLAZED AND INFUSED NEW JERSEY BBQ Jun 3, 2023
the 2023 season
One team, one year, and a stack of first-place calls that would furnish most careers.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA May 31, 2025
in 1 different meat · first in 2018
A 180 means all six judges handed back a nine for appearance, taste and tenderness. These teams have collected them.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA May 31, 2025
the 2025 season
A whole year of turning in boxes nobody at the table could mark down.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA at Granite State BBQ Championship Jun 9, 2018
Chicken · Jun 9, 2018
Where the 180 club starts. These are the oldest perfect cards anywhere in the data.
Granite State BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 1) May 30, 2025
shared by 2 teams in a field of 22
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.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA May 31, 2025
2013 → 2025
Before anything else, competition barbecue is showing up. Nobody has shown up more often than this.
A MAZIE Q May 31, 2025
2013 → 2025 · 12 contests
Held jointly by 4 — nobody has beaten it.
Rigs wear out and cooks retire. These teams were still turning in boxes more than a decade after their first one.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA May 31, 2025
16 contests, 2013 → 2025
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
Not just a long career — a busy one, season after season, with no quiet years in the middle.
CIDER BOYS BBQ Dec 31, 2019
2013 → 2019, no gaps
Held jointly by 7 — nobody has beaten it.
An unbroken run. Every single year, the rig came back out of the shed.
American Barbecue Company May 31, 2025
the 2025 season
Held jointly by 7 — nobody has beaten it.
A season spent almost entirely in a parking lot somewhere, next to a smoker.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA May 31, 2025
from 15 contests
The measure of a team that is always in it — not always winning, but always there at the end of the day.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA at Granite State BBQ Championship Jun 12, 2021
2016 → 2021 · won it 2×
Held jointly by 8 — 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.
Monadnock Up in Smoke BBQ Fest May 29, 2015
won with 686.2628
The largest gathering of smokers the data has ever recorded in one place.
Granite State BBQ Championship Jun 12, 2021
2016 → 2021 · about 34 teams a year
The institutions. These contests have been feeding judges for as long as the data goes back.
Granite State BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES Jun 1, 2024
3 editions · biggest 39
One big year is a fluke. These contests pull a crowd every single time they run.
Granite State BBQ Championship Jun 12, 2021
from 5 editions with a champion on file
The contests nobody owns. Turn up here and last year counts for nothing.
Granite State BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES Jun 4, 2022
37 teams cooking for it
What was actually on the table. Listed purses only — KCBS does not publish who took home which slice of it.
May 31, 2025 May 31, 2025
across 1 states and provinces
One Saturday, this many contests, every one of them lighting a fire at the same hour.
The 2025 season May 31, 2025
across 1 states and provinces
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.
Bill Wright May 31, 2025
2022 → 2025
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
The people who make a contest a contest — table captains, score checkers, keepers of the rulebook.
Bill Wright May 31, 2025
the 2025 season
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
Thirty contests in a year means most of a summer spent beside a scoring table.
Bill Wright May 31, 2025
at 8 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 | Category | Contest |
|---|---|---|
| SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA | Chicken | Granite State BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) May 31, 2025 |
| ELJEFE SMOKE | Chicken | Granite State BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) May 31, 2025 |
| HUMPHREY'S BBQ | Pork | Granite State BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 2) May 31, 2025 |
| SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA | Chicken | Granite State BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 1) May 30, 2025 |
| PADDY MCQ'S | Pork | Granite State BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 1) May 30, 2025 |
| A MAZIE Q | Chicken | Granite State BBQ Championship Jun 8, 2019 |
| SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA | Chicken | Granite State BBQ Championship Jun 9, 2018 |
| 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 | 565 | 160.05 | 174.93 | 0 | 0 |
| Pork Ribs | 579 | 162.52 | 175.97 | 0 | 0 |
| Pork | 567 | 162.89 | 176.58 | 2 | 3.5 |
| Chicken | 577 | 164.35 | 176.92 | 5 | 8.7 |
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.