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 4 scored contests and 970 result rows. Beat one and you appear here the next morning.
Showing the PR record book — every record below counts only contests held in PR. 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.
R2-BQat Cattlemen's Caribbean BBQ Competition 21 Feb 2014
38-team field · won the contest
Four meats, six judges, one afternoon. The biggest total anybody has ever assembled.
Sabor A Lenaat Smokin' Hot BBQ San Juan Puerto Rico 21 Feb 2015
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.
Cap'n Cookat Smokin' Hot BBQ San Juan Puerto Rico 21 Feb 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.
PLAYING WITH FIREat Cattlemen's BBQ Competition 13 Jul 2013
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.
Spartans Teamat Cattlemen's BBQ Competition 13 Jul 2013
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.
SHIGGIN & GRINNINat Cattlemen's Caribbean BBQ Competition 21 Feb 2014
finished 2nd, behind R2-BQ
A day this good takes a Grand Championship almost anywhere. These are the ones that ran into somebody having a better one.
T-MAC SMOKINat Smokin' Hot BBQ San Juan Puerto Rico 21 Feb 2015
and still beat 32 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.
Smokin' Hot BBQ San Juan Puerto Rico 21 Feb 2015
33 teams · won with 674.1940
What it cost to walk. At these contests a total that wins most weekends was only good enough for tenth.
9th Annual Smoking Hot BBQ San Juan 20 Feb 2016
28 teams · top score 676.0000
Judging tables are not interchangeable. At these contests the whole field scored high — not just the winner.
Cattlemen's BBQ Competition 13 Jul 2013
41 teams · even the win only took 675.4056
The other end of the same measurement: the contests where hardly anybody got a good card all day.
SHIGGIN & GRINNINat 9th Annual Smoking Hot BBQ San Juan 20 Feb 2016
over 3 EYZ BBQ
Not a contest so much as an exhibition — the runner-up in each of these was closer to tenth than to the winner.
T-MAC SMOKINat Smokin' Hot BBQ San Juan Puerto Rico 21 Feb 2015
over Sabor A Lena
A whole weekend — four meats, twenty-four judging cards — decided by a rounding error.
Grand Championships, reserve finishes, dynasties and droughts.
R2-BQ 21 Feb 2014
from 1 contests · first in 2014
Held jointly by 4 — nobody has beaten it.
The headline record of the sport: how many times a team has walked away with the whole thing.
3 EYZ BBQ 20 Feb 2016
from 1 contests · 0 titles
Held jointly by 4 — nobody has beaten it.
Second overall is the hardest place to finish. These teams have done it more than anybody.
PLAYING WITH FIREat Cattlemen's BBQ Competition 13 Jul 2013
won it with 675.4056
Every Grand Championship counts the same in the standings. Not every one means beating this many people.
SHIGGIN & GRINNINat 9th Annual Smoking Hot BBQ San Juan 20 Feb 2016
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.
Sabor A Lena 20 Feb 2016
across 3 of the four meats
Every category win is a walk to the stage. This is the longest walk in the sport.
PLAYING WITH FIRE 13 Jul 2013
the 2013 season
Held jointly by 2 — 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.
Smoke'Em All 20 Feb 2016
2013 → 2016
Held jointly by 5 — nobody has beaten it.
Before anything else, competition barbecue is showing up. Nobody has shown up more often than this.
Smoke'Em All 20 Feb 2016
4 contests, 2013 → 2016
Held jointly by 5 — nobody has beaten it.
Not just a long career — a busy one, season after season, with no quiet years in the middle.
Smoke'Em All 31 Dec 2016
2013 → 2016, no gaps
Held jointly by 5 — nobody has beaten it.
An unbroken run. Every single year, the rig came back out of the shed.
SHIGGIN & GRINNIN 20 Feb 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.
Smoke'Em All 20 Feb 2016
from 4 contests
Held jointly by 3 — 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.
R2-BQat Cattlemen S Caribbean Bbq Competition 21 Feb 2014
2014 → 2014 · 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.
Cattlemen's BBQ Competition 13 Jul 2013
won with 675.4056
The largest gathering of smokers the data has ever recorded in one place.
Cattlemen S Bbq Competition 13 Jul 2013
2013 → 2013 · about 41 teams a year
Held jointly by 5 — nobody has beaten it.
The institutions. These contests have been feeding judges for as long as the data goes back.
13 Jul 2013 13 Jul 2013
across 1 states and provinces
Held jointly by 4 — nobody has beaten it.
One Saturday, this many contests, every one of them lighting a fire at the same hour.
The 2014 season 23 Feb 2014
across 1 states and provinces
The high-water mark for the sport itself — the year the calendar was fullest.
| 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 | 134 | 152.78 | 176.45 | 0 | 0 |
| Pork | 132 | 154.84 | 176.14 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicken | 134 | 155.05 | 172.99 | 0 | 0 |
| Pork Ribs | 139 | 157.64 | 175.45 | 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.