Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series) (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)
The health card: 6 editions on record from 2013 to 2026, in Lynchburg, TN. The public page for this contest →
Latest field
Field trend
Teams who come back
Not been back
Teams who started here
Field, edition by edition
| Year | Date | Teams | Winner | Purse |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Oct 9, 2026 | 99 | SmellaQue | — |
| 2025 | Oct 10, 2025 | 90 | Kings BBQ Team | — |
| 2024 | Oct 11, 2024 | 87 | Scuffletown Smokers | — |
| 2023 | Oct 13, 2023 | 81 | Uncle Pig's Barbeque Pit | — |
| 2022 | Oct 14, 2022 | 83 | Heavy Smoke BBQ | — |
| 2013 | Oct 25, 2013 | 97 | COOL SMOKE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 26 | 90 | 29% | 73 |
| 2025 | 28 | 87 | 32% | 62 |
| 2024 | 20 | 81 | 25% | 67 |
| 2023 | 19 | 83 | 23% | 62 |
| 2022 | 4 | 97 | 4% | 79 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLISH Bbq KING - SMOKER | 5 | 2025-10-10 | 2025-10-10 |
| CHUNKY BBQ | 4 | 2025-10-10 | 2026-10-24 |
| IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ | 4 | 2025-10-10 | 2026-10-15 |
| Uncle Pig's Barbeque Pit | 4 | 2025-10-10 | 2026-07-11 |
| 3 EYZ BBQ | 3 | 2025-10-10 | 2026-10-09 |
| BLUE CHIP BBQ | 3 | 2025-10-10 | 2026-07-24 |
| GETTIN' BASTED | 3 | 2025-10-10 | 2026-10-17 |
| HOLD YOUR HORSES BBQ | 3 | 2025-10-10 | 2026-10-23 |
| Smoked & Furious | 3 | 2025-10-10 | 2026-10-23 |
| Bushmaster BBQ | 3 | 2025-10-10 | 2026-10-17 |
| Black Forest | 3 | 2025-10-10 | 2025-10-10 |
| BOGGS HOG BBQ | 2 | 2025-10-10 | 2026-10-24 |
| Heifers, Butts, & Clucks BBQ | 2 | 2025-10-10 | 2026-09-30 |
| House of Que | 2 | 2025-10-10 | 2026-10-24 |
| LAKE HOUSE BBQ | 2 | 2025-10-10 | 2026-08-22 |
| OLD VIRGINIA SMOKE | 2 | 2025-10-10 | 2026-10-24 |
| PARROTHEAD SMOKERS | 2 | 2025-10-10 | 2026-10-09 |
| SMOKIN' SWEETMEATS | 2 | 2025-10-10 | 2026-09-25 |
| SMOKIN' VOLTS BBQ | 2 | 2025-10-10 | 2026-10-17 |
| STEVO'S BBQ TEAM | 2 | 2025-10-10 | 2026-09-30 |
| TEAM CRAWFORD | 2 | 2025-10-10 | 2026-10-23 |
| Poppa Pig | 2 | 2025-10-10 | 2026-03-20 |
| Cook Cartel | 2 | 2025-10-10 | 2025-10-10 |
| SMOKECRAFT - MD | 2 | 2024-10-11 | 2026-10-16 |
| THE BBQ BUS | 2 | 2024-10-11 | 2026-09-30 |
| WE WILL ROCK QUE | 2 | 2024-10-11 | 2026-10-16 |
| Optimus Swine | 2 | 2024-10-11 | 2026-04-24 |
| LOCAL YOKELS BBQ | 2 | 2024-10-11 | 2026-09-30 |
| Piggin' Whiskey | 2 | 2024-10-11 | 2025-08-02 |
| Rusty's BBQ | 2 | 2024-10-11 | 2026-08-22 |
| AMERICAN HEROES BBQ | 2 | 2023-10-13 | 2026-08-28 |
| BnB BBQ | 2 | 2023-10-13 | 2026-06-05 |
| GIRLS CAN GRILL | 2 | 2023-10-13 | 2026-09-04 |
| Heavy Smoke BBQ | 2 | 2023-10-13 | 2026-09-25 |
| Kith n' Kin | 2 | 2023-10-13 | 2026-09-25 |
| Top Gun Barbecue | 2 | 2023-10-13 | 2026-10-24 |
| WOLF'S REVENGE BBQ | 2 | 2023-10-13 | 2026-10-23 |
| Organizer Portal | 2 | 2023-10-13 | 2026-03-20 |
| East Texas Smokers | 2 | 2023-10-13 | 2026-08-15 |
| Drilling And Grilling BBQ Team | 2 | 2023-10-13 | 2026-09-25 |
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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”.