These are the Master-series boards. The Backyard series keeps its own record board, scored out of 360.
30 all-time KCBS records — every one with a holder, a number, and the date it was set, read out of 2 scored contests and 175 result rows. Beat one and you appear here the next morning.
Showing the SJ record book — every record below counts only contests held in SJ. 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.
Club Carbon CRat Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026 26 Jun 2026
19-team field · won the contest
Four meats, six judges, one afternoon. The biggest total anybody has ever assembled.
DrumQ BBQ C.R.at Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 27 Jun 2025
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.
Club Carbon CRat Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026 26 Jun 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.
Lucky Three BBQ PTYat Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 27 Jun 2025
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.
Diablicos BBQat Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026 26 Jun 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.
Diablicos BBQat Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026 26 Jun 2026
finished 2nd, behind Club Carbon CR
A day this good takes a Grand Championship almost anywhere. These are the ones that ran into somebody having a better one.
Fire Family BBQ PTYat Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 27 Jun 2025
and still beat 15 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.
Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026 26 Jun 2026
19 teams · won with 693.7028
What it cost to walk. At these contests a total that wins most weekends was only good enough for tenth.
Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026 26 Jun 2026
19 teams · top score 693.7028
Judging tables are not interchangeable. At these contests the whole field scored high — not just the winner.
Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 27 Jun 2025
16 teams · even the win only took 681.7488
The other end of the same measurement: the contests where hardly anybody got a good card all day.
Club Carbon CRat Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026 26 Jun 2026
over Diablicos BBQ
Not a contest so much as an exhibition — the runner-up in each of these was closer to tenth than to the winner.
Fire Family BBQ PTYat Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2025 27 Jun 2025
over DrumQ BBQ C.R.
A whole weekend — four meats, twenty-four judging cards — decided by a rounding error.
Grand Championships, reserve finishes, dynasties and droughts.
Club Carbon CR 26 Jun 2026
from 2 contests · first in 2026
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
The headline record of the sport: how many times a team has walked away with the whole thing.
Diablicos BBQ 26 Jun 2026
from 1 contests · 0 titles
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
Second overall is the hardest place to finish. These teams have done it more than anybody.
Club Carbon CRat Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026 26 Jun 2026
won it with 693.7028
Every Grand Championship counts the same in the standings. Not every one means beating this many people.
Club Carbon CRat Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026 26 Jun 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.
DrumQ BBQ C.R. 27 Jun 2025
across 2 of the four meats
Every category win is a walk to the stage. This is the longest walk in the sport.
DrumQ BBQ C.R. 27 Jun 2025
the 2025 season
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 26 Jun 2026
2025 → 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 26 Jun 2026
2 contests, 2025 → 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.
Club Carbon CR 26 Jun 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.
Club Carbon CR 26 Jun 2026
from 2 contests
Held jointly by 4 — 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.
Fire Family BBQ PTYat Pz Al Carbon Festival Bbq 26 Jun 2026
2025 → 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.
Pz al Carbon, Festival BBQ 2026 26 Jun 2026
won with 693.7028
The largest gathering of smokers the data has ever recorded in one place.
Pz Al Carbon Festival Bbq 26 Jun 2026
2025 → 2026 · about 18 teams a year
The institutions. These contests have been feeding judges for as long as the data goes back.
27 Jun 2025 27 Jun 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 27 Jun 2025
across 1 states and provinces
Held jointly by 2 — 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.
ERNESTO URIBE 26 Jun 2026
2025 → 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 27 Jun 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.
ERNESTO URIBE 26 Jun 2026
at 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Club Carbon CR | 1 |
| 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 | 35 | 164.70 | 175.17 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicken | 35 | 166.51 | 175.70 | 0 | 0 |
| Pork Ribs | 35 | 167.47 | 177.71 | 0 | 0 |
| Pork | 35 | 168.34 | 177.71 | 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.