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 69 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 PO record book — every record below counts only contests held in PO. 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.
Justice BBQ at BBQ Fest Market Plaza Jul 12, 2026
13-team field · won the contest
Four meats, six judges, one afternoon. The biggest total anybody has ever assembled.
Bado BBQ at BBQ Fest Market Plaza Jul 12, 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.
Justice BBQ at BBQ Fest Market Plaza Jul 12, 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.
88 BBQ at BBQ Fest Market Plaza Jul 12, 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.
Lucky Three BBQ at BBQ Fest Market Plaza Jul 12, 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.
Urban Smoke House at BBQ Fest Market Plaza Jul 12, 2026
finished 2nd, behind Justice BBQ
A day this good takes a Grand Championship almost anywhere. These are the ones that ran into somebody having a better one.
Justice BBQ at BBQ Fest Market Plaza Jul 12, 2026
and still beat 12 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.
BBQ Fest Market Plaza Jul 12, 2026
13 teams · won with 676.5712
What it cost to walk. At these contests a total that wins most weekends was only good enough for tenth.
Justice BBQ at BBQ Fest Market Plaza Jul 12, 2026
over Urban Smoke House
Not a contest so much as an exhibition — the runner-up in each of these was closer to tenth than to the winner.
Justice BBQ at BBQ Fest Market Plaza Jul 12, 2026
over Urban Smoke House
A whole weekend — four meats, twenty-four judging cards — decided by a rounding error.
Grand Championships, reserve finishes, dynasties and droughts.
Justice BBQ Jul 12, 2026
from 1 contests · first in 2026
The headline record of the sport: how many times a team has walked away with the whole thing.
Urban Smoke House Jul 12, 2026
from 1 contests · 0 titles
Second overall is the hardest place to finish. These teams have done it more than anybody.
Justice BBQ at BBQ Fest Market Plaza Jul 12, 2026
won it with 676.5712
Every Grand Championship counts the same in the standings. Not every one means beating this many people.
Justice BBQ at BBQ Fest Market Plaza Jul 12, 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.
88 BBQ Jul 12, 2026
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.
88 BBQ Jul 12, 2026
the 2026 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.
Longevity — the teams who keep turning up, and keep turning it in.
88 BBQ Jul 12, 2026
2026 → 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.
88 BBQ Jul 12, 2026
1 contests, 2026 → 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.
Justice BBQ Jul 12, 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.
88 BBQ Jul 12, 2026
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.
Justice BBQ at BBQ Fest Market Plaza Jul 12, 2026
2026 → 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.
BBQ Fest Market Plaza Jul 12, 2026
won with 676.5712
The largest gathering of smokers the data has ever recorded in one place.
BBQ Fest Market Plaza Jul 12, 2026
2026 → 2026 · about 13 teams a year
The institutions. These contests have been feeding judges for as long as the data goes back.
Jul 12, 2026 Jul 12, 2026
across 1 states and provinces
One Saturday, this many contests, every one of them lighting a fire at the same hour.
The 2026 season Jul 12, 2026
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.
Ernesto Uribe Jul 12, 2026
2026 → 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.
Ernesto Uribe Jul 12, 2026
the 2026 season
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
Thirty contests in a year means most of a summer spent beside a scoring table.
Ernesto Uribe Jul 12, 2026
at 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Justice BBQ | 1 |
| 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 | 13 | 156.90 | 173.73 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicken | 13 | 158.53 | 165.75 | 0 | 0 |
| Pork Ribs | 13 | 159.55 | 177.14 | 0 | 0 |
| Pork | 13 | 163.90 | 177.14 | 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.