Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival
The health card: 5 editions on record from 2019 to 2026, in Jonesboro, AR. The public page for this contest →
Latest field
Field trend
Teams who come back
Not been back
Published purse
Teams who started here
Field, edition by edition
| Year | Date | Teams | Winner | Purse |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Sep 25, 2026 Cancelled | — | — | — |
| 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 | 26 | Bad Dog BBQ | 13,200.00 |
| 2024 | Sep 27, 2024 | 27 | Glamping Grillers | 13,200.00 |
| 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | 25 | MEMPHIS ORIGINAL BBQ | 13,200.00 |
| 2019 | Sep 27, 2019 | 43 | COWBOY Q | 13,200.00 |
Who came back
Of the teams at one edition, how many were on the board at the next — and how many were brand new to your contest.
| Edition | Returned | Of | Return rate | New faces |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | 27 | 44% | 14 |
| 2024 | 11 | 25 | 44% | 16 |
| 2023 | 11 | 43 | 26% | 14 |
The teams who stopped coming
Teams who have cooked this contest before, were not at the most recent edition, and have competed somewhere in the last eighteen months — so they are still active, they just are not here. Sorted by how many times they used to come, which is the order worth working down.
| Team | Times cooked here | Last time here | Last contest anywhere |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIRE DANCER BBQ | 3 | 2024-09-27 | 2026-09-30 |
| ROOTERS-N-TOOTERS TN | 3 | 2024-09-27 | 2026-10-09 |
| Cowboy Q | 3 | 2024-09-27 | 2025-06-06 |
| SWINE AND CHEESE | 2 | 2023-09-29 | 2026-07-11 |
| Hillbilly Hoggers | 2 | 2023-09-29 | 2025-06-06 |
| Big D's BBQ | 1 | 2024-09-27 | 2026-05-29 |
| JANKY LEG BBQ | 1 | 2024-09-27 | 2026-10-24 |
| Kermit's Ex | 1 | 2024-09-27 | 2026-10-23 |
| MAN MEAT BBQ | 1 | 2024-09-27 | 2026-10-23 |
| Smoke Busters | 1 | 2024-09-27 | 2026-05-29 |
| TRIPLE H BBQ | 1 | 2024-09-27 | 2026-10-09 |
| Piggin' Whiskey | 1 | 2024-09-27 | 2025-08-02 |
| Slappin'Butt BBQ | 1 | 2024-09-27 | 2025-06-27 |
| Ambition Que | 1 | 2023-09-29 | 2026-10-23 |
| Big Dog Grillers | 1 | 2023-09-29 | 2025-06-06 |
| Notorious P.I.G. | 1 | 2019-09-27 | 2026-05-29 |
| Ribs For Her Pleasure | 1 | 2019-09-27 | 2026-09-25 |
| Party Q | 1 | 2019-09-27 | 2026-09-25 |
| WARDEN'S Q | 1 | 2019-09-27 | 2025-05-09 |
| K & K KOOKERS | 1 | 2019-09-27 | 2025-10-17 |
| 3 RIVERS BBQ | 1 | 2019-09-27 | 2025-07-10 |
Check your date
Team home regions are inferred from team names and where they cook, and a team is “still active” if it has appeared on any results board in the last eighteen months. Everything here comes from the public listings and results at kcbs.us; contests that never published results are invisible to it, so read low numbers as “not on file” before reading them as “did not happen”.