These are the Master-series boards. The Backyard series keeps its own record board, scored out of 360.
28 all-time KCBS records — every one with a holder, a number, and the date it was set, read out of 1 scored contests and 140 result rows. Beat one and you appear here the next morning.
Showing the NR record book — every record below counts only contests held in NR. 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.
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28-team field · won the contest
Four meats, six judges, one afternoon. The biggest total anybody has ever assembled.
FIRE, SMOKE & FLAVORat EUregio Barbecue Festival 20 Aug 2016
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.
BUNCH OF SWINESat EUregio Barbecue Festival 20 Aug 2016
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.
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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.
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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 EUregio Barbecue Festival 20 Aug 2016
finished 2nd, behind BBQ LONGHORN RANCH HANDS
A day this good takes a Grand Championship almost anywhere. These are the ones that ran into somebody having a better one.
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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.
EUregio Barbecue Festival 20 Aug 2016
28 teams · won with 696.5376
What it cost to walk. At these contests a total that wins most weekends was only good enough for tenth.
EUregio Barbecue Festival 20 Aug 2016
28 teams · top score 696.5376
Judging tables are not interchangeable. At these contests the whole field scored high — not just the winner.
EUregio Barbecue Festival 20 Aug 2016
28 teams · even the win only took 696.5376
The other end of the same measurement: the contests where hardly anybody got a good card all day.
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over BUNCH OF SWINES
Not a contest so much as an exhibition — the runner-up in each of these was closer to tenth than to the winner.
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over BUNCH OF SWINES
A whole weekend — four meats, twenty-four judging cards — decided by a rounding error.
Grand Championships, reserve finishes, dynasties and droughts.
BBQ LONGHORN RANCH HANDS 20 Aug 2016
from 1 contests · first in 2016
The headline record of the sport: how many times a team has walked away with the whole thing.
BUNCH OF SWINES 20 Aug 2016
from 1 contests · 0 titles
Second overall is the hardest place to finish. These teams have done it more than anybody.
BBQ LONGHORN RANCH HANDSat EUregio Barbecue Festival 20 Aug 2016
won it with 696.5376
Every Grand Championship counts the same in the standings. Not every one means beating this many people.
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the title finally came in 2016
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.
BUNCH OF SWINES 20 Aug 2016
across 1 of the four meats
Held jointly by 4 — nobody has beaten it.
Every category win is a walk to the stage. This is the longest walk in the sport.
BUNCH OF SWINES 20 Aug 2016
the 2016 season
Held jointly by 4 — nobody has beaten it.
One team, one year, and a stack of first-place calls that would furnish most careers.
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Brisket · 20 Aug 2016
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.
BUNCH OF SWINES 20 Aug 2016
2016 → 2016
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.
BUNCH OF SWINES 20 Aug 2016
1 contests, 2016 → 2016
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.
BBQ LONGHORN RANCH HANDS 20 Aug 2016
the 2016 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.
BUNCH OF SWINES 20 Aug 2016
from 1 contests
Held jointly by 10 or more — 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.
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2016 → 2016 · 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.
EUregio Barbecue Festival 20 Aug 2016
won with 696.5376
The largest gathering of smokers the data has ever recorded in one place.
Euregio Barbecue Festival 20 Aug 2016
2016 → 2016 · about 28 teams a year
The institutions. These contests have been feeding judges for as long as the data goes back.
20 Aug 2016 20 Aug 2016
across 1 states and provinces
One Saturday, this many contests, every one of them lighting a fire at the same hour.
The 2016 season 20 Aug 2016
across 1 states and provinces
The high-water mark for the sport itself — the year the calendar was fullest.
| Team | Category | Contest |
|---|---|---|
| BBQ LONGHORN RANCH HANDS | Brisket | EUregio Barbecue Festival 2016-08-20 |
| 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 | 28 | 162.94 | 180.00 | 1 | 35.7 |
| Pork Ribs | 28 | 163.84 | 179.44 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicken | 28 | 166.00 | 176.56 | 0 | 0 |
| Pork | 28 | 166.23 | 178.86 | 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.