These are the Master-series boards. The Backyard series keeps its own record board, scored out of 360.
27 all-time KCBS records — every one with a holder, a number, and the date it was set, read out of 1 scored contests and 173 result rows. Beat one and you appear here the next morning.
Showing the SE record book — every record below counts only contests held in SE. 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.
BUTTRUB.COMat Smoke in the North 6 Aug 2016
31-team field · won the contest
Four meats, six judges, one afternoon. The biggest total anybody has ever assembled.
FREE RANGE BBQat Smoke in the North 6 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.
Grilligionat Smoke in the North 6 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.
BUTTRUB.COMat Smoke in the North 6 Aug 2016
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.
VIKING BBQat Smoke in the North 6 Aug 2016
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.
FREE RANGE BBQat Smoke in the North 6 Aug 2016
finished 2nd, behind BUTTRUB.COM
A day this good takes a Grand Championship almost anywhere. These are the ones that ran into somebody having a better one.
BUTTRUB.COMat Smoke in the North 6 Aug 2016
and still beat 30 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.
Smoke in the North 6 Aug 2016
31 teams · won with 674.2512
What it cost to walk. At these contests a total that wins most weekends was only good enough for tenth.
Smoke in the North 6 Aug 2016
31 teams · top score 674.2512
Judging tables are not interchangeable. At these contests the whole field scored high — not just the winner.
Smoke in the North 6 Aug 2016
31 teams · even the win only took 674.2512
The other end of the same measurement: the contests where hardly anybody got a good card all day.
BUTTRUB.COMat Smoke in the North 6 Aug 2016
over FREE RANGE BBQ
Not a contest so much as an exhibition — the runner-up in each of these was closer to tenth than to the winner.
BUTTRUB.COMat Smoke in the North 6 Aug 2016
over FREE RANGE BBQ
A whole weekend — four meats, twenty-four judging cards — decided by a rounding error.
Grand Championships, reserve finishes, dynasties and droughts.
BUTTRUB.COM 6 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.
FREE RANGE BBQ 6 Aug 2016
from 1 contests · 0 titles
Second overall is the hardest place to finish. These teams have done it more than anybody.
BUTTRUB.COMat Smoke in the North 6 Aug 2016
won it with 674.2512
Every Grand Championship counts the same in the standings. Not every one means beating this many people.
BUTTRUB.COMat Smoke in the North 6 Aug 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.
BUTTRUB.COM 6 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.
BUTTRUB.COM 6 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.
Longevity — the teams who keep turning up, and keep turning it in.
BBQ Brothers 6 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.
BBQ Brothers 6 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.
BUTTRUB.COM 6 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.
SMOKING FINNS FI 6 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.
BUTTRUB.COMat Smoke In The North 6 Aug 2016
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.
Smoke in the North 6 Aug 2016
won with 674.2512
The largest gathering of smokers the data has ever recorded in one place.
Smoke In The North 6 Aug 2016
2016 → 2016 · about 31 teams a year
The institutions. These contests have been feeding judges for as long as the data goes back.
6 Aug 2016 6 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 6 Aug 2016
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 | 31 | 158.60 | 178.86 | 0 | 0 |
| Pork Ribs | 31 | 159.06 | 174.33 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicken | 31 | 159.28 | 173.74 | 0 | 0 |
| Pork | 31 | 159.48 | 175.44 | 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.