Closest championship
A whole weekend — four meats, twenty-four judging cards — decided by a rounding error.
0.0002
points between champion and reserve
🥇 GETTIN' BASTED at Rock'n Ribs BBQ Festival
- Set Apr 19, 2013
- How over BURNT FINGER BBQ
- Standing held outright
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The top 25 (lowest is the record here)
| # | Holder | Points between champion and reserve | Set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GETTIN' BASTED at Rock'n Ribs BBQ Festival over BURNT FINGER BBQ |
0.0002 | Apr 19, 2013 |
| =2 | GILLY'S BBQ at Polar Bear Challenge over BLAZIN' BLUES BBQ |
0.0002 | Feb 22, 2013 |
| =2 | DIRT ROAD BBQ at Sam's Club National BBQ Tour over SMOKEAHOLICS KS |
0.0002 | Apr 26, 2013 |
| =2 | LOWLAND SMOKERS at Tony Stone Low & Slow BBQ Competition over BUNCH OF SWINES |
0.0002 | May 18, 2013 |
| =5 | LOOT N' BOOTY BBQ at 5th Annual Lake Havasu Music Brews & BBQ Championship over IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ |
0.0004 | Jan 25, 2013 |
| =5 | MOVIN' THE CHAINS at Sam's Club National BBQ Tour over PIGGY D'S BBQ |
0.0004 | Apr 12, 2013 |
| =5 | LOTTA BULL BBQ at Rock'n Freedom over BURNT FINGER BBQ |
0.0004 | Jun 20, 2013 |
| =5 | SMOKIN BOYS AND HOT GRILLS at Hudson Valley Ribfest over ACK-QUE |
0.0004 | Aug 19, 2016 |
| =5 | ELJEFE SMOKE at Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 1) over SMOKIN HOGGZ BBQ - MA |
0.0004 | Apr 12, 2024 |
| =5 | WYO SMOKE SHOW at Miles City Cowtown Cookoff over SMOKIN' BOXERS BBQ |
0.0004 | Jun 14, 2024 |
| =5 | THE BBQ BUS at BBCubed - Brighton Barbeque Bash over SHIGGIN & GRINNIN |
0.0004 | Jul 19, 2024 |
| =5 | 3BBQ at BBQ Festival Vanamoisa, Estonia over Dreamfire BBQ Team |
0.0004 | Aug 16, 2024 |
| =5 | WOLF'S REVENGE BBQ at Smokin' in the Pines over SMOKIN SKULLIES |
0.0004 | Mar 28, 2025 |
| =5 | GOD'S COUNTRY BBQ at 11th Annual Slab-O-Rama Barbeque Challenge over Uncle Jesse's BBQ |
0.0004 | Jan 16, 2026 |
| 15 | JACKED UP BBQ at Naptown barBAYq Contest & Music Festival over 3 EYZ BBQ |
0.0012 | May 3, 2013 |
| 16 | SMOKE FREAKS at CIBR-BBQ Central Illinois Bragging Right BBQ over One2BBQ |
0.0108 | Oct 13, 2017 |
| =17 | EAT MOR BUTT BBQ at Madison Ribberfest BBQ & Blues Festisval over FOWL BUTT BBQ |
0.0112 | Aug 19, 2016 |
| =17 | 501 BBQ at Smokin on the White over Survivor-Que |
0.0112 | Sep 15, 2017 |
| =17 | HOT DADDY'S BBQ at SD BBQ Shootout @ Huset's Speedway over RUM N' SMOKE BBQ |
0.0112 | Aug 29, 2025 |
| =20 | BIG JOHNSON'S BBQ at Days of 47 BBQ Showdown over SIN CITY SMOKERS |
0.0112 | Jul 24, 2014 |
| =20 | One2BBQ at Smoke on the Square: In Memory of David Harness over ABLE ACRES BBQ |
0.0112 | Jun 26, 2015 |
| =20 | CHECKERED FLAG 500 BBQ at 8th Annual Covington Cork & Pork Festival over 3N1 Q |
0.0112 | Jun 21, 2019 |
| =20 | Angry Jack BBQ at Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival over Stewbabys BBQ |
0.0112 | Aug 20, 2021 |
| =20 | Son of a Boar BBQ at Minnesota in May (Masters) over CITY SLICKERS BBQ |
0.0112 | May 13, 2022 |
| =20 | SLAPS BBQ at The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship over Squealin N Dealin BBQ |
0.0112 | Jun 27, 2025 |
Dead-level finishes are left off this board on purpose. 33 championships ended with the top two on identical totals and went to the KCBS tiebreaker — a row of 0.0000 margins would push every real near-miss off the page.
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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