These are the Master-series boards. The Backyard series keeps its own record board, scored out of 360.
33 all-time KCBS records — every one with a holder, a number, and the date it was set, read out of 5 scored contests and 260 result rows. Beat one and you appear here the next morning.
Showing the NO record book — every record below counts only contests held in NO. 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 Hot Yardat Marchfelder Feuerfest 2 May 2026
8-team field · won the contest
Four meats, six judges, one afternoon. The biggest total anybody has ever assembled.
SCHLUCHTENGRILLER BBQat Marchfelder Feuerfest 2 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.
Woodquarter Smokerheadsat Marchfelder Feuerfest (ONE MEAT RIBS) 2 May 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.
3BBQat Marchfelder Feuerfest 2 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.
BBQ Hot Yardat Marchfelder Feuerfest 2 May 2026
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.
3BBQat Marchfelder Feuerfest 2 May 2026
finished 2nd, behind BBQ Hot Yard
A day this good takes a Grand Championship almost anywhere. These are the ones that ran into somebody having a better one.
VIKING BBQat Oslofjord BBQ Challenge 13 Aug 2016
and still beat 27 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.
Oslofjord BBQ Challenge 13 Aug 2016
28 teams · won with 672.6628
What it cost to walk. At these contests a total that wins most weekends was only good enough for tenth.
Oslofjord BBQ Challenge 13 Aug 2016
28 teams · top score 672.6628
Judging tables are not interchangeable. At these contests the whole field scored high — not just the winner.
Oslofjord BBQ Challenge 13 Aug 2016
28 teams · even the win only took 672.6628
The other end of the same measurement: the contests where hardly anybody got a good card all day.
BBQ Hot Yardat Marchfelder Feuerfest 2 May 2026
over 3BBQ
Not a contest so much as an exhibition — the runner-up in each of these was closer to tenth than to the winner.
VIKING BBQat Oslofjord BBQ Challenge 13 Aug 2016
over BBQ LONGHORN RANCH HANDS
A whole weekend — four meats, twenty-four judging cards — decided by a rounding error.
Grand Championships, reserve finishes, dynasties and droughts.
The BBQ Ranch 3 May 2025
from 1 contests · first in 2025
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.
3BBQ 2 May 2026
from 2 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.
VIKING BBQat Oslofjord BBQ Challenge 13 Aug 2016
won it with 672.6628
Every Grand Championship counts the same in the standings. Not every one means beating this many people.
BBQ Hot Yardat Marchfelder Feuerfest 2 May 2026
the title finally came in 2026
Proof it is worth going back. Every team here cooked for years before the call finally came.
The four meats: who wins them, and who has been handed a flawless card.
Barbecoa BBQ Team 3 May 2025
across 2 of the four meats
Held jointly by 3 — nobody has beaten it.
Every category win is a walk to the stage. This is the longest walk in the sport.
Barbecoa BBQ Team 3 May 2025
the 2025 season
One team, one year, and a stack of first-place calls that would furnish most careers.
3BBQat Marchfelder Feuerfest 2 May 2026
Pork · 2 May 2026
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.
3BBQ 2 May 2026
2025 → 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.
3BBQ 2 May 2026
4 contests, 2025 → 2026
Held jointly by 7 — nobody has beaten it.
Not just a long career — a busy one, season after season, with no quiet years in the middle.
BBQ Hot Yard 2 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.
3BBQ 2 May 2026
from 2 contests
Held jointly by 5 — 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.
BBQ Hot Yardat Marchfelder Feuerfest 2 May 2026
2025 → 2026 · won it 1×
Held jointly by 6 — 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.
Oslofjord BBQ Challenge 13 Aug 2016
won with 672.6628
The largest gathering of smokers the data has ever recorded in one place.
Marchfelder Feuerfest 2 May 2026
2025 → 2026 · about 10 teams a year
The institutions. These contests have been feeding judges for as long as the data goes back.
Marchfelder Feuerfest 2 May 2026
4 editions · biggest 13
One big year is a fluke. These contests pull a crowd every single time they run.
Marchfelder Feuerfest 2 May 2026
from 4 editions with a champion on file
The contests nobody owns. Turn up here and last year counts for nothing.
3 May 2025 3 May 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 3 May 2025
across 1 states and provinces
Held jointly by 3 — 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.
ANDREAS SCHNOELL 3 Jul 2027
2025 → 2027
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
The people who make a contest a contest — table captains, score checkers, keepers of the rulebook.
ANDREAS SCHNOELL 3 May 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.
ANDREAS SCHNOELL 2 May 2026
at 4 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 Hot Yard | 1 |
| Team | Category | Contest |
|---|---|---|
| 3BBQ | Pork | Marchfelder Feuerfest 2026-05-02 |
| 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 | 48 | 157.00 | 174.85 | 0 | 0 |
| Pork | 48 | 160.10 | 175.44 | 1 | 20.8 |
| Pork Ribs | 68 | 163.06 | 175.66 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicken | 48 | 165.02 | 175.62 | 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.