48 all-time KCBS records — every one with a holder, a number, and the date it was set, read out of 31 scored contests and 4,248 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 VT record book — every record below counts only contests held in VT. 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.
STICKS & STONES BBQ at Green Mountain BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 2) Sep 20, 2025
25-team field · won the contest
Four meats, six judges, one afternoon. The biggest total anybody has ever assembled.
Uncle Pig's Barbeque Pit at Green Mountain BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 1) Sep 16, 2022
won the category with it
Held jointly by 4 — 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.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA at Green Mountain BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY2) Sep 14, 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.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA at Green Mountain BBQ Championship Jun 27, 2015
won the category with it
Held jointly by 3 — 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.
Rogue Hog BBQ at Harpoon Championships of New England BBQ Jul 25, 2015
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.
ELJEFE SMOKE at Green Mountain BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES Sep 19, 2026
finished 2nd, behind Meat Monarchy
A day this good takes a Grand Championship almost anywhere. These are the ones that ran into somebody having a better one.
DIZZY PIG at Harpoon Championships of New England BBQ Jul 25, 2014
and still beat 33 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.
Green Mountain BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 2) Sep 20, 2025
25 teams · won with 710.2856
What it cost to walk. At these contests a total that wins most weekends was only good enough for tenth.
Green Mountain BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES Sep 19, 2026
16 teams · top score 704.5372
Judging tables are not interchangeable. At these contests the whole field scored high — not just the winner.
Green Mountain BBQ Championship- CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES Sep 8, 2018
33 teams · even the win only took 675.9772
The other end of the same measurement: the contests where hardly anybody got a good card all day.
INSANE SWINE BBQ at Green Mountain BBQ Championship Jun 25, 2016
over BLAZIN' BUTTZ BBQ
Not a contest so much as an exhibition — the runner-up in each of these was closer to tenth than to the winner.
DIZZY PIG at Harpoon Championships of New England BBQ Jul 25, 2014
over SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA
A whole weekend — four meats, twenty-four judging cards — decided by a rounding error.
Grand Championships, reserve finishes, dynasties and droughts.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA Sep 14, 2024
from 19 contests · first in 2018
The headline record of the sport: how many times a team has walked away with the whole thing.
ELJEFE SMOKE Sep 19, 2026
from 6 contests · 0 titles
Second overall is the hardest place to finish. These teams have done it more than anybody.
ELJEFE SMOKE Sep 19, 2026
across 6 contests, still waiting
The cruellest record in the book. Every team here has stood on the stage second, and never once first.
BIG RAZ BBQ Sep 7, 2019
the 2019 season
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
The best year anybody has ever had. Four in a season is a career year; these went past it.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA Sep 14, 2024
6 titles in all
Held jointly by 4 — nobody has beaten it.
A dynasty at one contest is one kind of record. Winning at thirty different ones is another kind entirely.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA at Green Mountain BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES Sep 14, 2024
won 2022–2024
The contest a team has made their own — turning up every year and taking it home again.
Smokin' Hoggz at Green Mountain BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES Sep 8, 2023
2022–2023, straight
Defending a title once is an achievement. Nobody on this board gave one up willingly.
INSANE SWINE BBQ at Green Mountain BBQ Championship Jun 25, 2016
won it with 694.8344
Every Grand Championship counts the same in the standings. Not every one means beating this many people.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA at The Harpoon Brewery BBQ Festival Jul 28, 2018
the title finally came in 2018
Proof it is worth going back. Every team here cooked for years before the call finally came.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA Sep 14, 2024
2018 → 2024 · 6 titles
Staying good is harder than getting good. These teams were winning contests more than a decade apart.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA Sep 14, 2024
in 1 state
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.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA Sep 20, 2025
across all four meats
Every category win is a walk to the stage. This is the longest walk in the sport.
BIG RAZ BBQ Sep 7, 2019
the 2019 season
Held jointly by 5 — nobody has beaten it.
One team, one year, and a stack of first-place calls that would furnish most careers.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA Sep 14, 2024
in 3 different meats · first in 2015
Held jointly by 3 — nobody has beaten it.
A 180 means all six judges handed back a nine for appearance, taste and tenderness. These teams have collected them.
STICKS & STONES BBQ at Green Mountain BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 2) Sep 20, 2025
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.
Meat Monarchy Sep 19, 2026
the 2026 season
A whole year of turning in boxes nobody at the table could mark down.
STICKS & STONES BBQ at Green Mountain BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES Sep 19, 2026
first in 2025 · 17 contests to complete the set
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
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.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA at Green Mountain BBQ Championship Jun 27, 2015
Pork · Jun 27, 2015
Where the 180 club starts. These are the oldest perfect cards anywhere in the data.
Green Mountain BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES Sep 19, 2026
shared by 4 teams in a field of 16
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.
Up-2 BBQ Sep 19, 2026
2015 → 2026
Before anything else, competition barbecue is showing up. Nobody has shown up more often than this.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA Sep 19, 2026
2013 → 2026 · 25 contests
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
Rigs wear out and cooks retire. These teams were still turning in boxes more than a decade after their first one.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA Sep 19, 2026
25 contests, 2013 → 2026
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
Not just a long career — a busy one, season after season, with no quiet years in the middle.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA Dec 31, 2019
2013 → 2019, no gaps
Held jointly by 9 — nobody has beaten it.
An unbroken run. Every single year, the rig came back out of the shed.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA Sep 17, 2022
the 2022 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.
SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA Sep 19, 2026
from 19 contests
The measure of a team that is always in it — not always winning, but always there at the end of the day.
Up-2 BBQ at Green Mountain BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES Sep 19, 2026
2018 → 2026
Held jointly by 2 — 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.
Green Mountain BBQ Championship Jun 25, 2016
won with 694.8344
The largest gathering of smokers the data has ever recorded in one place.
Green Mountain BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES Sep 19, 2026
2018 → 2026 · about 19 teams a year
The institutions. These contests have been feeding judges for as long as the data goes back.
The Harpoon Brewery BBQ Festival Jul 23, 2022
5 editions · biggest 34
One big year is a fluke. These contests pull a crowd every single time they run.
Green Mountain BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES Sep 19, 2026
from 18 editions with a champion on file
The contests nobody owns. Turn up here and last year counts for nothing.
The Harpoon Brewery BBQ Festival Jul 27, 2019
33 teams cooking for it
What was actually on the table. Listed purses only — KCBS does not publish who took home which slice of it.
Sep 13, 2024 Sep 13, 2024
across 1 states and provinces
Held jointly by 3 — nobody has beaten it.
One Saturday, this many contests, every one of them lighting a fire at the same hour.
The 2022 season Sep 17, 2022
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.
Bill Wright Sep 19, 2026
2021 → 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.
Bill Wright Sep 17, 2022
the 2022 season
Held jointly by 4 — nobody has beaten it.
Thirty contests in a year means most of a summer spent beside a scoring table.
Bill Wright Sep 19, 2026
at 16 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 |
|---|---|
| Meat Monarchy | 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 | 582 | 161.35 | 176.76 | 6 | 10.3 |
| Pork Ribs | 658 | 163.17 | 175.65 | 1 | 1.5 |
| Pork | 583 | 163.26 | 176.73 | 3 | 5.1 |
| Chicken | 627 | 165.45 | 177.47 | 6 | 9.6 |
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.