Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard
The health card: 5 editions on record from 2022 to 2026, in Murphysboro, IL. 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 | 2026-09-25 | — | — | 12,700.00 |
| 2025 | 2025-09-19 | 56 | WeQ4u | 12,700.00 |
| 2024 | 2024-09-20 | 58 | The BBQ Bus | 12,700.00 |
| 2023 | 2023-09-21 | 50 | Janky Leg BBQ | 12,700.00 |
| 2022 | 2022-09-23 | 46 | Smokin' Ghost | 12,700.00 |
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 | 24 | 58 | 41% | 32 |
| 2024 | 26 | 50 | 52% | 32 |
| 2023 | 21 | 46 | 46% | 29 |
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 | Where | Times cooked here | Last time here | Last contest anywhere |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HEFTY LEFTY BBQ | IL | 3 | 2024-09-20 | 2026-08-07 |
| Matty Macks | IA | 3 | 2024-09-20 | 2026-07-24 |
| QUE U | WI | 3 | 2024-09-20 | 2026-07-24 |
| Serial Grillers | IL | 3 | 2024-09-20 | 2026-06-06 |
| Rusty Pig BBQ | IL | 3 | 2024-09-20 | 2025-11-05 |
| SmokeMasters BBQ | VA | 2 | 2024-09-20 | 2025-03-14 |
| Bumpy Pickle BBQ | IL | 2 | 2024-09-20 | 2026-03-20 |
| Darty-Q | IA | 2 | 2024-09-20 | 2025-05-16 |
| Q-JITSU | MI | 2 | 2023-09-21 | 2026-08-16 |
| Swine Life | MS | 2 | 2023-09-21 | 2026-05-29 |
| Backdraft BBQ | CO | 2 | 2023-09-21 | 2025-08-01 |
| DB BBQ | IL | 1 | 2024-09-20 | 2026-08-15 |
| LOCAL YOKELS BBQ | IN | 1 | 2024-09-20 | 2026-07-17 |
| MACHETE BOYS BBQ | MN | 1 | 2024-09-20 | 2026-08-14 |
| MUDVILLE BBQ | CA | 1 | 2024-09-20 | 2026-08-15 |
| Mulkey's BBQ | KS | 1 | 2024-09-20 | 2026-08-14 |
| On The Brink BBQ | MI | 1 | 2024-09-20 | 2026-08-21 |
| SCUFFLETOWN SMOKERS | IN | 1 | 2024-09-20 | 2026-08-15 |
| STICKS & STONES BBQ | NJ | 1 | 2024-09-20 | 2026-08-15 |
| Wicked Pig BBQ | TN | 1 | 2024-09-20 | 2026-08-21 |
| CHICK HUGGINS BBQ | IA | 1 | 2024-09-20 | 2026-04-17 |
| Cream City Q | IL | 1 | 2024-09-20 | 2025-09-19 |
| Smokin J's | GA | 1 | 2024-09-20 | 2025-08-15 |
| BLUE & GRAY BBQ | VA | 1 | 2023-09-21 | 2026-08-21 |
| FIRE DANCER BBQ | AR | 1 | 2023-09-21 | 2026-08-14 |
| Kith n' Kin | TN | 1 | 2023-09-21 | 2026-06-19 |
| SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA | MA | 1 | 2023-09-21 | 2026-08-15 |
| A&R Q | TN | 1 | 2023-09-21 | 2026-03-20 |
| Salt and Pepper BBQ | IL | 1 | 2023-09-21 | 2025-10-03 |
| 2 GREEKS BBQ | IL | 1 | 2023-09-21 | 2025-09-13 |
| SI2 BBQ | IL | 1 | 2023-09-21 | 2025-08-22 |
| iBQ'n | IN | 1 | 2022-09-23 | 2026-05-15 |
| Risky Brisket | IL | 1 | 2022-09-23 | 2026-08-15 |
| SMOKE-N-PEPPERS | IN | 1 | 2022-09-23 | 2026-05-15 |
| THUNDER HOG BBQ | IN | 1 | 2022-09-23 | 2026-05-15 |
| The Yellow Rose Texas BBQ Company | IN | 1 | 2022-09-23 | 2025-08-01 |
| Rub Runners BBQ | IL | 1 | 2022-09-23 | 2025-06-27 |
| SMOKIN HOOSIERS | IN | 1 | 2022-09-23 | 2025-05-16 |
Where your field comes from
The home state or province of every team that has cooked here. This is where the entry is, and where advertising the next one is least wasted.
| Region | Teams |
|---|---|
| IL | 47 |
| IN | 17 |
| TN | 12 |
| MO | 10 |
| IA | 9 |
| KS | 7 |
| MS | 4 |
| VA | 3 |
| MI | 3 |
| WI | 2 |
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”.