VPD Back the Blue BBQ Competition
The health card: 3 editions on record from 2024 to 2026, in Vidalia, LA. The public page for this contest →
Latest field
Teams who come back
Not been back
Published purse
Teams who started here
Field, edition by edition
| Year | Date | Teams | Winner | Purse |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 | 29 | Kermit's Ex | 10,000.00 |
| 2025 | Oct 24, 2025 | 33 | Sweet Bayou BBQ | 13,400.00 |
| 2024 | Oct 25, 2024 | 31 | Poppa Pig? | 10,400.00 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 | 33 | 24% | 21 |
| 2025 | 17 | 31 | 55% | 16 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Bear BBQ | 2 | 2025-10-24 | 2026-08-28 |
| Big D's BBQ | 2 | 2025-10-24 | 2026-05-29 |
| MEMPHIS ORIGINAL BBQ | 2 | 2025-10-24 | 2026-09-11 |
| Rankin County BBQ Company | 2 | 2025-10-24 | 2026-05-24 |
| Smoke Busters | 2 | 2025-10-24 | 2026-05-29 |
| Poppa Pig | 2 | 2025-10-24 | 2026-03-20 |
| Sweet Bayou BBQ | 2 | 2025-10-24 | 2026-10-09 |
| Italians Do it Better | 2 | 2025-10-24 | 2026-09-11 |
| BBK Backyard BBQ | 2 | 2025-10-24 | 2025-10-24 |
| Smoking Hose | 2 | 2025-10-24 | 2025-10-24 |
| Camo Construction | 2 | 2025-10-24 | 2025-10-24 |
| Concordia Bank & Trust Co | 2 | 2025-10-24 | 2025-10-24 |
| Vallee AC Cold Smoke | 2 | 2025-10-24 | 2025-10-24 |
| Glamping Grillers | 1 | 2025-10-24 | 2026-10-09 |
| LA PASADITA | 1 | 2025-10-24 | 2026-09-30 |
| Cauatro D BBQ | 1 | 2025-10-24 | 2025-10-24 |
| JC's Good Ol' Boys BBQ | 1 | 2025-10-24 | 2025-10-24 |
| All the Smoke | 1 | 2025-10-24 | 2025-10-24 |
| Red, White and Brew BBQ | 1 | 2025-10-24 | 2025-10-24 |
| Brookfield Reneable N.A | 1 | 2025-10-24 | 2025-10-24 |
| Creole Magic Seasoning | 1 | 2025-10-24 | 2025-10-24 |
| Big News | 1 | 2025-10-24 | 2025-10-24 |
| McDonald Collision | 1 | 2025-10-24 | 2025-10-24 |
| Pafford EMT | 1 | 2025-10-24 | 2025-10-24 |
| Syrah Burnouts | 1 | 2025-10-24 | 2025-10-24 |
| FIRE DANCER BBQ | 1 | 2024-10-25 | 2026-09-30 |
| HOLLOW Q | 1 | 2024-10-25 | 2026-10-23 |
| PARROTHEAD SMOKERS | 1 | 2024-10-25 | 2026-10-09 |
| RAZORRACKS | 1 | 2024-10-25 | 2026-10-23 |
| MISSISSIPPI MEAT MAFIA | 1 | 2024-10-25 | 2026-04-24 |
| C4-Que | 1 | 2024-10-25 | 2026-09-18 |
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”.