51 all-time KCBS records — every one with a holder, a number, and the date it was set, read out of 37 scored contests and 5,592 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 WY record book — every record below counts only contests held in WY. 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.
Colorado Bulldawg BBQ at Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships and Bluegrass Festival Aug 16, 2024
29-team field · won the contest
Four meats, six judges, one afternoon. The biggest total anybody has ever assembled.
Que's Your Daddy? at Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cook-Off Jul 24, 2026
won the board
The Backyard board runs on its own scale, so it keeps its own record — pooled with Master it would never surface at all.
GOT SMOKE BAR-B-QUE at Pepsi WY State Championship BBQ & Bluegrass Festival Aug 14, 2015
won the category with it
Held jointly by 7 — 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.
YOU QUE'D ME ALL NIGHT LONG at Griller's Cup Jul 15, 2016
won the category with it
Held jointly by 4 — nobody has beaten 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.
LaTa-Que at Pepsi WY State Championship BBQ & Bluegrass Festival Aug 16, 2019
won the category with it
Held jointly by 5 — 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.
SMOKY OKIE & COMPANY at Best of the West Aug 12, 2016
won the category with it
Held jointly by 5 — 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.
Brinkerhoff BBQ at Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships and Bluegrass Festival Aug 15, 2025
finished 2nd, behind Wyo Smoke Show
A day this good takes a Grand Championship almost anywhere. These are the ones that ran into somebody having a better one.
JO-BAWB'S BBQ at Best of the West BBQ Fest Sep 5, 2014
and still beat 24 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.
Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships & Bluegrass Festival Aug 14, 2026
29 teams · won with 699.9428
What it cost to walk. At these contests a total that wins most weekends was only good enough for tenth.
Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cook-Off Jul 24, 2026
32 teams · top score 699.9656
Judging tables are not interchangeable. At these contests the whole field scored high — not just the winner.
Best of the West BBQ Fest Sep 5, 2014
25 teams · even the win only took 657.0632
The other end of the same measurement: the contests where hardly anybody got a good card all day.
AMERICAN HEROES BBQ Aug 14, 2026
20 contests · best 705.1428
Anyone can catch one good day. This is the highest anybody has averaged across a real career.
YOU QUE'D ME ALL NIGHT LONG at Smoke & Soul Fest Sep 13, 2019
over The Eagle BBQ Colorado
Not a contest so much as an exhibition — the runner-up in each of these was closer to tenth than to the winner.
CANCERSUCKSCHICAGO.COM at 9th Annual Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ & Bluegrass Festival Aug 16, 2013
over MIKE
A whole weekend — four meats, twenty-four judging cards — decided by a rounding error.
Grand Championships, reserve finishes, dynasties and droughts.
B-S BBQ OUTLAWS Aug 14, 2026
from 13 contests · first in 2017
The headline record of the sport: how many times a team has walked away with the whole thing.
SMOKIN HOT BUTTS BBQ Aug 16, 2024
from 35 contests · 1 title
Second overall is the hardest place to finish. These teams have done it more than anybody.
Brinkerhoff BBQ Aug 15, 2025
across 9 contests, still waiting
The cruellest record in the book. Every team here has stood on the stage second, and never once first.
SMOKIN HOT BUTTS BBQ Aug 14, 2026
1 titles from 35 contests
Winning often matters more than winning a lot. This is how often a team turns up and takes the whole thing.
LONESTAR SMOKE RANGERS Sep 6, 2013
the 2013 season
Held jointly by 4 — nobody has beaten it.
The best year anybody has ever had. Four in a season is a career year; these went past it.
LONESTAR SMOKE RANGERS Aug 15, 2014
3 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.
B-S BBQ OUTLAWS at Pepsi WY State Championship BBQ & Bluegrass Festival Aug 16, 2019
won 2017–2019
The contest a team has made their own — turning up every year and taking it home again.
B-S BBQ OUTLAWS at Pepsi WY State Championship BBQ & Bluegrass Festival Aug 16, 2019
2017–2019, straight
Defending a title once is an achievement. Nobody on this board gave one up willingly.
SLAPS BBQ at Smoke & Soul Fest-Day 1 Oct 2, 2020
won it with 700.5372
Every Grand Championship counts the same in the standings. Not every one means beating this many people.
SMOKIN HOT BUTTS BBQ at Pepsi WY State Championship BBQ & Bluegrass Festival Aug 19, 2016
the title finally came in 2016
Proof it is worth going back. Every team here cooked for years before the call finally came.
B-S BBQ OUTLAWS Aug 14, 2026
2017 → 2026 · 4 titles
Staying good is harder than getting good. These teams were winning contests more than a decade apart.
B-S BBQ OUTLAWS Aug 14, 2026
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 HOT BUTTS BBQ Oct 7, 2022
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.
LONESTAR SMOKE RANGERS Sep 6, 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.
YOU QUE'D ME ALL NIGHT LONG Sep 13, 2019
in 2 different meats · first in 2016
Held jointly by 4 — nobody has beaten it.
A 180 means all six judges handed back a nine for appearance, taste and tenderness. These teams have collected them.
Heifers, Butts, & Clucks BBQ at Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships and Bluegrass Festival Aug 15, 2025
first in 2024 · 14 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.
GOT SMOKE BAR-B-QUE at Pepsi WY State Championship BBQ & Bluegrass Festival Aug 14, 2015
Chicken · Aug 14, 2015
Where the 180 club starts. These are the oldest perfect cards anywhere in the data.
Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships & Bluegrass Festival Aug 18, 2023
shared by 6 teams in a field of 27
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.
SMOKIN HOT BUTTS BBQ Aug 14, 2026
2013 → 2026
Before anything else, competition barbecue is showing up. Nobody has shown up more often than this.
SMOKIN HOT BUTTS BBQ Aug 14, 2026
2013 → 2026 · 35 contests
Rigs wear out and cooks retire. These teams were still turning in boxes more than a decade after their first one.
SMOKIN HOT BUTTS BBQ Aug 14, 2026
35 contests, 2013 → 2026
Not just a long career — a busy one, season after season, with no quiet years in the middle.
SMOKIN HOT BUTTS BBQ Dec 31, 2026
2013 → 2026, no gaps
An unbroken run. Every single year, the rig came back out of the shed.
LONESTAR SMOKE RANGERS Sep 6, 2013
the 2013 season · 2 titles
Held jointly by 5 — nobody has beaten it.
A season spent almost entirely in a parking lot somewhere, next to a smoker.
SMOKIN HOT BUTTS BBQ Jul 24, 2026
from 35 contests
The measure of a team that is always in it — not always winning, but always there at the end of the day.
SMOKIN HOT BUTTS BBQ Aug 14, 2026
24 from 35 contests
Consistency, stated as a percentage. Turn up, and this is how often you were still standing at the end.
SMOKIN HOT BUTTS BBQ at Pepsi WY State Championship BBQ & Bluegrass Festival Aug 16, 2019
2015 → 2019 · won it 1×
Held jointly by 3 — 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 & Soul Fest-Day 1 Oct 2, 2020
won with 700.5372
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
The largest gathering of smokers the data has ever recorded in one place.
Pepsi WY State Championship BBQ & Bluegrass Festival Aug 16, 2019
2015 → 2019 · about 28 teams a year
The institutions. These contests have been feeding judges for as long as the data goes back.
Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships & Bluegrass Festival Aug 14, 2026
4 editions · biggest 30
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
One big year is a fluke. These contests pull a crowd every single time they run.
Griller's Cup Jul 15, 2016
from 4 editions with a champion on file
The contests nobody owns. Turn up here and last year counts for nothing.
Smoke & Soul Fest Sep 22, 2017
in a field of 18 · won with 687.4404
Out of 720 points, this many teams finished inside ONE of the leader. Any of them could have won it with a better garnish.
Pepsi Wyoming State BBQ Championships and Bluegrass Festival Aug 16, 2024
29 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.
Jul 19, 2013 Jul 19, 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 2015 season Aug 28, 2015
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.
Del Anderson Aug 14, 2026
2020 → 2026
The people who make a contest a contest — table captains, score checkers, keepers of the rulebook.
Del Anderson Oct 3, 2020
the 2020 season
Held jointly by 2 — nobody has beaten it.
Thirty contests in a year means most of a summer spent beside a scoring table.
Del Anderson Aug 14, 2026
at 13 contests
How many separate teams have taken a Grand Championship at a contest this rep was running.
| Team | GCs this season |
|---|---|
| Que's Your Daddy? | 1 |
| Smoking & Toasting BBQ | 1 |
| B-S BBQ OUTLAWS | 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 | 1,009 | 161.03 | 176.46 | 5 | 5 |
| Pork Ribs | 1,018 | 163.32 | 177.25 | 4 | 3.9 |
| Pork | 1,009 | 163.46 | 177.27 | 6 | 5.9 |
| Chicken | 1,017 | 164.55 | 177.49 | 8 | 7.9 |
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.