Closest championship
A whole weekend — four meats, twenty-four judging cards — decided by a rounding error.
0.0002
points between champion and reserve
🥇 GETTIN' BASTEDat Rock'n Ribs BBQ Festival
- Set 19 Apr 2013
- How over BURNT FINGER BBQ
- Standing held outright
- Scope national, and available by state on the record book
The top 25 (lowest is the record here)
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.
📈 More from scores on the board
The biggest — and smallest — numbers anybody has ever put in front of six judges.
- 📈 Highest overall score
- 🏡 Highest Backyard overall score
- 🍖 Highest chicken score
- 🍖 Highest pork ribs score
- 🍖 Highest pork score
- 🍖 Highest brisket score
- 💔 Highest score that did not win
- 🥶 Lowest winning score
- 🎤 Toughest room to get a call in
- 🍯 Most generous room
- 🧊 Toughest room
- 📐 Highest career average
- 💪 Widest championship margin