Biggest field
The largest gathering of smokers the data has ever recorded in one place.
606
teams at one contest
🥇 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open
- Set 3 Oct 2015
- How won with 706.2972
- Standing held outright
- Scope national, and available by state on the record book
The top 25
Rebuilt nightly from every KCBS result we can find. A record here is only as complete as the data behind it — if a contest is missing from the archive, so is anything that happened at it.
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Records held by the contests themselves rather than by the teams.