48 all-time KCBS records — every one with a holder, a number, and the date it was set, read out of 28 scored contests and 3,153 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 UT record book — every record below counts only contests held in UT. 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.
Tuffy's BBQ at NorUt KCBS BBQ Championship Sep 18, 2026
12-team field · won the contest
Four meats, six judges, one afternoon. The biggest total anybody has ever assembled.
BIG POPPA SMOKERS at Traeger NorUt State Championship Jun 29, 2018
won the category with it
Held jointly by 9 — nobody has beaten 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.
Bourbon & Blues BBQ at The Blaze of 47 BBQ Cookoff Jul 19, 2024
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.
UTAH BBQ COMPANY at Q'n With Kia-Kia-Kia Jun 16, 2017
won the category with it
Held jointly by 10 or more — 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.
Rhythm n QUE at Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Apr 11, 2014
won the category with it
Held jointly by 6 — nobody has beaten 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.
Colorado Bulldawg BBQ at NorUt KCBS BBQ Championship Sep 18, 2026
finished 2nd, behind Tuffy's BBQ
A day this good takes a Grand Championship almost anywhere. These are the ones that ran into somebody having a better one.
BIG JOHNSON'S BBQ at Days of 47 BBQ Showdown Jul 24, 2014
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.
Blaze of 47 Jul 18, 2025
26 teams · won with 707.9888
What it cost to walk. At these contests a total that wins most weekends was only good enough for tenth.
Pitmaster's NorUt KCBS BBQ Championship Jun 20, 2025
16 teams · top score 712.5716
Judging tables are not interchangeable. At these contests the whole field scored high — not just the winner.
Traeger NorUt State BBQ Championship Jun 19, 2020
32 teams · even the win only took 705.7028
The other end of the same measurement: the contests where hardly anybody got a good card all day.
GETTIN' BASTED at Red Rock BBQ Jan 3, 2020
over Downing Street BBQ
Not a contest so much as an exhibition — the runner-up in each of these was closer to tenth than to the winner.
BIG JOHNSON'S BBQ at Days of 47 BBQ Showdown Jul 24, 2014
over SIN CITY SMOKERS
A whole weekend — four meats, twenty-four judging cards — decided by a rounding error.
Grand Championships, reserve finishes, dynasties and droughts.
R&R BBQ Apr 10, 2015
from 9 contests · first in 2014
Held jointly by 3 — nobody has beaten it.
The headline record of the sport: how many times a team has walked away with the whole thing.
Colorado Bulldawg BBQ Sep 18, 2026
from 6 contests · 0 titles
Held jointly by 6 — nobody has beaten it.
Second overall is the hardest place to finish. These teams have done it more than anybody.
Colorado Bulldawg BBQ Sep 18, 2026
across 6 contests, still waiting
Held jointly by 3 — nobody has beaten it.
The cruellest record in the book. Every team here has stood on the stage second, and never once first.
PARROTHEAD SMOKERS Jun 29, 2018
the 2018 season
The best year anybody has ever had. Four in a season is a career year; these went past it.
PARROTHEAD SMOKERS Jun 29, 2018
2 titles in all
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
A dynasty at one contest is one kind of record. Winning at thirty different ones is another kind entirely.
R&R BBQ at Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Apr 10, 2015
won 2014–2015
The contest a team has made their own — turning up every year and taking it home again.
R&R BBQ at Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Apr 10, 2015
2014–2015, straight
Defending a title once is an achievement. Nobody on this board gave one up willingly.
UTAH BBQ COMPANY at Western Legends Heritage and Music Festival Aug 14, 2020
won it with 698.2748
Every Grand Championship counts the same in the standings. Not every one means beating this many people.
CROOKED PIGS at Blue Compass RV BBQ Bash May 1, 2026
the title finally came in 2026
Proof it is worth going back. Every team here cooked for years before the call finally came.
Rhythm n QUE Jul 19, 2024
2013 → 2024 · 2 titles
Staying good is harder than getting good. These teams were winning contests more than a decade apart.
CROOKED PIGS May 1, 2026
in 1 state
Held jointly by 10 or more — nobody has beaten it.
Some contests hand out a state championship alongside the trophy. These teams have collected the most of them.
The four meats: who wins them, and who has been handed a flawless card.
CROOKED PIGS May 1, 2026
across all four meats
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
Every category win is a walk to the stage. This is the longest walk in the sport.
PARROTHEAD SMOKERS Jun 29, 2018
the 2018 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.
Brinkerhoff BBQ Sep 18, 2026
in 3 different meats · first in 2024
A 180 means all six judges handed back a nine for appearance, taste and tenderness. These teams have collected them.
Tuffy's BBQ at NorUt KCBS BBQ Championship Sep 18, 2026
Brisket, Pork
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
One perfect card is a story worth retelling. Two before the awards ceremony is a record.
Brinkerhoff BBQ Sep 18, 2026
the 2026 season
A whole year of turning in boxes nobody at the table could mark down.
Brinkerhoff BBQ at NorUt KCBS BBQ Championship Sep 18, 2026
first in 2024 · 30 contests to complete the set
A perfect card in chicken, ribs, pork AND brisket. The date is the day the set was completed; the board is led by whoever needed the fewest contests to finish it.
Rhythm n QUE at Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Apr 11, 2014
Brisket · Apr 11, 2014
Where the 180 club starts. These are the oldest perfect cards anywhere in the data.
NorUt KCBS BBQ Championship Sep 18, 2026
shared by 7 teams in a field of 12
Some tables run hot. At these contests the judges handed out flawless cards all afternoon.
Longevity — the teams who keep turning up, and keep turning it in.
CROOKED PIGS May 1, 2026
2015 → 2026
Before anything else, competition barbecue is showing up. Nobody has shown up more often than this.
BIG JOHNSON'S BBQ Jul 19, 2024
2013 → 2024 · 11 contests
Rigs wear out and cooks retire. These teams were still turning in boxes more than a decade after their first one.
CROOKED PIGS May 1, 2026
18 contests, 2015 → 2026
Not just a long career — a busy one, season after season, with no quiet years in the middle.
CROOKED PIGS Dec 31, 2026
2017 → 2026, no gaps
An unbroken run. Every single year, the rig came back out of the shed.
PARROTHEAD SMOKERS Jul 13, 2018
the 2018 season · 2 titles
Held jointly by 10 or more — nobody has beaten it.
A season spent almost entirely in a parking lot somewhere, next to a smoker.
CROOKED PIGS May 1, 2026
from 18 contests
The measure of a team that is always in it — not always winning, but always there at the end of the day.
R&R BBQ at Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Apr 7, 2017
2013 → 2017 · won it 2×
Held jointly by 5 — 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.
Western Legends Heritage and Music Festival Aug 14, 2020
won with 698.2748
The largest gathering of smokers the data has ever recorded in one place.
Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Apr 7, 2017
2013 → 2017 · about 29 teams a year
The institutions. These contests have been feeding judges for as long as the data goes back.
Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Apr 7, 2017
5 editions · biggest 30
One big year is a fluke. These contests pull a crowd every single time they run.
Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Apr 7, 2017
from 5 editions with a champion on file
The contests nobody owns. Turn up here and last year counts for nothing.
The Blaze of 47 BBQ Cookoff Jul 19, 2024
16 teams cooking for it
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
What was actually on the table. Listed purses only — KCBS does not publish who took home which slice of it.
Apr 5, 2013 Apr 5, 2013
across 1 states and provinces
Held jointly by 10 or more — nobody has beaten it.
One Saturday, this many contests, every one of them lighting a fire at the same hour.
The 2017 season Aug 25, 2017
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.
Steven Flewallen Sep 18, 2026
2020 → 2026
The people who make a contest a contest — table captains, score checkers, keepers of the rulebook.
Steven Flewallen Oct 17, 2025
the 2025 season
Thirty contests in a year means most of a summer spent beside a scoring table.
Steven Flewallen Sep 18, 2026
at 8 contests
How many separate teams have taken a Grand Championship at a contest this rep was running.
| Team | GCs this season |
|---|---|
| Tuffy's BBQ | 1 |
| CROOKED PIGS | 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 | 606 | 164.08 | 177.38 | 6 | 9.9 |
| Pork Ribs | 621 | 164.21 | 175.93 | 1 | 1.6 |
| Pork | 609 | 166.16 | 176.99 | 15 | 24.6 |
| Chicken | 620 | 166.71 | 177.46 | 13 | 21 |
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.