Smokin’ 42 BBQ Earns First Grand Championship at Smoke on the Lake
It’s a long haul up I-75 from Tifton to Acworth. The trip back down the interstate after the Smoke on the Lake contest didn’t seem quite as long for Smokin’ 42 BBQ with their first Grand Championship trophy riding shotgun. However, the win didn’t come easy the Men in Black. For the first time in GBA history there was a three way tie for Grand Champion. Bubba Grills won the Pork Loin category; Rub Shakers Que won Pullled Pork and Smokin’ 42 BBQ was tops in Ribs all with a score in the final round of 599.1. The contest reps had to go thru eight levels of the tiebreaker system before Smokin’ 42 BBQ edged out the other two teams.
Grand Champion – Smokin’ 42 BBQ
Bubba Grills continued his strong run through the 2012-2013 contest season by making finals in both Loin and Ribs. These scores helped the team accumulate the top total score in the preliminary rounds and win Reserve Grand Champion.
Reserve Grand Champion – Bubba Grills
Rub Shakers Que, cooking in their first GBA contest, joined the GBA 600 club with a perfect 600 score in the Pulled Pork preliminary round. They followed up with the top score on the Pulled Pork finals table to take first place in the category. Smokin’ 42 BBQ took second place. Two more first time GBA competitors, Smoke Ring Aficionados and Drums A’ Smokin’, finished third and fourth respecitively. Jason Adams of Anarque came in fifth.
Lonnie Smith, pitmaster of Bubba Grills, topped the field in Loin with Anarque in second and Jethro’s Cooking Crew in third. Smoke Ring Aficionados edged out Butt Rubbin’ BBQ for fourth place by 0.2 of a point.
Smokin’ 42 BBQ turned in the best Ribs of the day. Bubba Grills was runner-up and Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack took third place. But Rubbin’ BBQ and Rub Shakers Que rounded out the top five.
The GBA also held it’s first ever Cooking for Fun division at Smoke on the Lake. The Cooking for Fun division is for teams who love to cook and want to get started in the GBA style of competitive BBQ. Cooking for Fun contests have lower entry fees than a regular GBA contest and do not have a finals round. The Fat Guys had the highest scoring box of the day with a 595.1 in Pulled Pork to take the Grand Championship.
Cooking for Fun Grand Champion – The Fat Guys
The Fat Guys also has the highest cumulative score over the three categories, but since they won Grand Champion, the Reserve Grand Championship passed down the the second highest cumulative score by Direct Lender BBQ.
Cooking for Fun Reserve Grand Champion – Direct Lender BBQ
The Fat Guys won the Chicken category with Squealz on Wheelz in second and Red Top BBQ in third. Holy Smokers NS took first in Ribs followed by Hickory Flat BBQ and Direct Lenders BBQ. It was The Fat Guys again getting the first place call. This time for Pulled Pork. Sweet Bottom BBQ was the runner-up and Direct Lender BBQ again took third place.
Cooking for Fun First Place Ribs – Holy Smokers NS
The GBA would like to thank the North Cobb Rotary Club and the City of Acworth for hosting a great contest on beautiful Lake Acworth.
| Smoke on the Lake GBA Division | ||||||
| Scores in RED are final round scores | ||||||
| Pulled Pork | Pork Loin | |||||
| 1 | 599.1 | Rub Shackers Que | 1 | 599.1 | Bubba Grills | |
| 2 | 591.8 | Smokin ’42 BBQ | 2 | 593.9 | Anar-que | |
| 3 | 585.6 | Smoke Ring Afficianadoes | 3 | 591.5 | Jethro’s Cooking Crew | |
| 4 | 588.8 | Drums A’ Smokin | 4 | 587.2 | Smoke Ring Afficianadoes | |
| 5 | 588.4 | Anar-que | 5 | 587 | Butt Rubbin BBQ | |
| 6 | 587 | Sauced Hog Smoke Shack | 6 | 586.3 | Sauced Hog Smoke Shack | |
| 7 | 584.2 | Old Henry’s BBQ | 7 | 582.1 | Daddy’s Bar-B-Q | |
| 8 | 583.3 | Bubba Grills | 8 | 581.1 | Old Henry’s BBQ | |
| 9 | 580.2 | Butt Rubbin BBQ | 9 | 577.9 | Smokin ’42 BBQ | |
| 10 | 575 | Daddy’s Bar-B-Q | 10 | 576.6 | Rub Shackers Que | |
| 11 | 572.6 | Plum Superior | 11 | 570.6 | Plum Superior | |
| 12 | 570.7 | Jethro’s Cooking Crew | 12 | 563.3 | Drums A’ Smokin | |
| RIBS | ||
| 1 | 599.1 | Smokin ’42 BBQ |
| 2 | 598.5 | Bubba Grills |
| 3 | 586.9 | Sauced Hog Smoke Shack |
| 4 | 587.3 | Butt Rubbin BBQ |
| 5 | 586.7 | Rub Shackers Que |
| 6 | 583.4 | Anar-que |
| 7 | 582 | Plum Superior |
| 8 | 573.6 | Drums A’ Smokin |
| 9 | 570.3 | Daddy’s Bar-B-Q |
| 10 | 569.9 | Smoke Ring Afficianadoes |
| 11 | 569.9 | Jethro’s Cooking Crew |
| 12 | 569.6 | Old Henry’s BBQ |
| Reserve Scores | GBA Division | ||||||
| Preliminary round scores only | Ribs | Pulled | Loin | Total | |||
| 1 | Bubba Grills | 591.8 | 583.3 | 590.3 | 1765.4 | ||
| 2 | Sauced Hog Smoke Shack | 591.2 | 587 | 586.3 | 1764.5 | ||
| 3 | Anar-que | 583.4 | 588.4 | 592.1 | 1763.9 | ||
| 4 | Smokin ’42 BBQ | 590 | 595.7 | 577.9 | 1763.6 | ||
| 5 | Rub Shackers Que | 586.7 | 600 | 576.6 | 1763.3 | ||
| 6 | Butt Rubbin BBQ | 587.3 | 580.2 | 587 | 1754.5 | ||
| 7 | Smoke Ring Afficianadoes | 569.9 | 589.1 | 587.2 | 1746.2 | ||
| 8 | Jethro’s Cooking Crew | 569.9 | 570.7 | 595.5 | 1736.1 | ||
| 9 | Old Henry’s BBQ | 569.6 | 584.2 | 581.1 | 1734.9 | ||
| 10 | Daddy’s Bar-B-Q | 570.3 | 575 | 582.1 | 1727.4 | ||
| 11 | Drums A’ Smokin | 573.6 | 588.8 | 563.3 | 1725.7 | ||
| 12 | Plum Superior | 582 | 572.6 | 570.6 | 1725.2 | ||
Smoke on the Lake Cooking for Fun Division
| Pulled Pork | Chicken | |||||
| 1 | 595.1 | The Fat Guys | 1 | 594.8 | The Fat Guys | |
| 2 | 590.8 | Sweet Bottom BBQ | 2 | 585.9 | Squealz on Wheels | |
| 3 | 587.6 | Direct Lender BBQ | 3 | 585.2 | Red Top BBQ | |
| 4 | 587.2 | Hickory Flat BBQ Co | 4 | 583.2 | Hey Jack, BBQ | |
| 5 | 583.6 | Red Top BBQ | 5 | 583 | Nice Rack BBQ | |
| 6 | 580.6 | Squealz on Wheels | 6 | 582.9 | Direct Lender BBQ | |
| 7 | 579.3 | Nice Rack BBQ | 7 | 579.6 | Grills Gone Wild | |
| 8 | 577.9 | Four Fathers BBQ Crew | 8 | 579 | Sweet Bottom BBQ | |
| 9 | 571.8 | How ‘Bout Them Hawgs | 9 | 576.5 | Smoking Snowballs | |
| 10 | 569.3 | Holy Smokers NS | 10 | 576.1 | Hickory Flat BBQ Co | |
| 11 | 567.3 | Hey Jack, BBQ | 11 | 568.8 | Holy Smokers NS | |
| 12 | 566.9 | Bootlegger’s BBQ | 12 | 565.5 | Four Fathers BBQ Crew | |
| 13 | 563.3 | Grills Gone Wild | 13 | 564.1 | Smokin’ Jackets | |
| 14 | 560.9 | Smoking Snowballs | 14 | 556.1 | Slow Cookers at Play | |
| 15 | 552.5 | Smokin’ Jackets | 15 | 555.7 | Bootlegger’s BBQ | |
| 16 | 546.1 | Slow Cookers at Play | 16 | 532.3 | How ‘Bout Them Hawgs |
| RIBS | ||
| 1 | 589.8 | Holy Smokers NS |
| 2 | 588.5 | Hickory Flat BBQ Co |
| 3 | 584 | Direct Lender BBQ |
| 4 | 583.3 | Smokin’ Jackets |
| 5 | 582.4 | Sweet Bottom BBQ |
| 6 | 579.6 | Nice Rack BBQ |
| 7 | 579.1 | Smoking Snowballs |
| 8 | 578.1 | How ‘Bout Them Hawgs |
| 9 | 577.7 | Red Top BBQ |
| 10 | 576.3 | The Fat Guys |
| 11 | 575 | Bootlegger’s BBQ |
| 12 | 571.4 | Squealz on Wheels |
| 13 | 569.8 | Hey Jack, BBQ |
| 14 | 567.1 | Slow Cookers at Play |
| 15 | 563.7 | Grills Gone Wild |
| 16 | 555.8 | Four Fathers BBQ Crew |
| Reserve Scores Cooking for Fun Division | |||||||
| Ribs | Pulled | Chicken | Total | ||||
| 1 | The Fat Guys | 576.3 | 595.1 | 594.8 | 1766.2 | ||
| 2 | Direct Lender BBQ | 584 | 587.6 | 582.9 | 1754.5 | ||
| 3 | Sweet Bottom BBQ | 582.4 | 590.8 | 579 | 1752.2 | ||
| 4 | Hickory Flat BBQ Co | 588.5 | 587.2 | 576.1 | 1751.8 | ||
| 5 | Red Top BBQ | 577.7 | 583.6 | 585.2 | 1746.5 | ||
| 6 | Nice Rack BBQ | 579.6 | 579.3 | 583 | 1741.9 | ||
| 7 | Squealz on Wheels | 571.4 | 580.6 | 585.9 | 1737.9 | ||
| 8 | Holy Smokers NS | 589.8 | 569.3 | 568.8 | 1727.9 | ||
| 9 | Hey Jack, BBQ | 569.8 | 567.3 | 583.2 | 1720.3 | ||
| 10 | Smoking Snowballs | 579.1 | 560.9 | 576.5 | 1716.5 | ||
| 11 | Grills Gone Wild | 563.7 | 563.3 | 579.6 | 1706.6 | ||
| 12 | Smokin’ Jackets | 583.3 | 552.5 | 564.1 | 1699.9 | ||
| 13 | Four Fathers BBQ Crew | 555.8 | 577.9 | 565.5 | 1699.2 | ||
| 14 | Bootlegger’s BBQ | 575 | 566.9 | 555.7 | 1697.6 | ||
| 15 | How ‘Bout Them Hawgs | 578.1 | 571.8 | 532.3 | 1682.2 | ||
| 16 | Slow Cookers at Play | 567.1 | 546.1 | 556.1 | 1669.3 | ||