When you say Budmeisters …
At Pigs & Wings 2013 in Perry, GA, the crowd heard Budmeisters called often and most importantly, last. 42 teams persevered almost constaant rain for the 2 days to turn in great barbecue.
Pitmaster Thomas Henry’s team became just the third team in GBA history to win all three GBA categories en route to the Grand Championship. Budmeisters also won the Overall Championship for the contest that went to the team with the highest cumulative score of the the GBA categories of Pork Loin, Pulled Pork & Ribs along with ancillary categories of Brisket and Chicken.
Budmiester’s dominating performance created a pass down for Reserve Grand Championship. With a 2nd in Loin, 8th in Pork and 14th in Ribs; Chris Coleman & Dirty South BBQ claimed the Reserve Grand Championship.
Following Budmeisters and Dirty South BBQ in Pork Loin was Anarque in third place. Fouth place went to D.W.’s Kountry Cookers with Sauced Hogs Smokeshack in fifth place. Runner up in Pork was D.W.s Kountry Cookers. Killer B’s BBQ took third place and Que the Music claimed fourth. Forest’s Fine Foods edged Bethel Smokers for fifth place by 0.3 of a point. Superior Smokers had the second place Rib entry for the day. Bethel Smokers, Shadetree BBQ & Soithern Paradise finished third thru fifth respectively.
| RIBS | PULLED PORK | |||||
| 1 | 594.7 | Budmeisters | 1 | 585.8 | Budmeisters | |
| 2 | 580.2 | Superior Smokers | 2 | 583.2 | DW Kountry Cookerss | |
| 3 | 570.6 | Bethel Smokers | 3 | 580.5 | Killer B’s BBQ | |
| 4 | 594.2 | Shadetree smokers | 4 | 593 | Que the Music | |
| 5 | 593.8 | Southern Paradise | 5 | 591.8 | Forest Fine Foods | |
| 6 | 592.8 | Killer B’s BBQ | 6 | 591.5 | Bethel Smokers | |
| 7 | 590 | Watts Smokin | 7 | 590.8 | Fiddlers BBQ | |
| 8 | 589.7 | Smokin Swine BBA | 8 | 590.6 | Dirty South BBQ | |
| 9 | 589 | Smokin’ AJ’s | 9 | 588.8 | Party Fowl BBQ | |
| 10 | 587.6 | Cook’s Portable Smokehouse | 10 | 588.8 | Heavenly Hawgs | |
| 11 | 587.6 | Captian Jacks BBQ | 11 | 588.5 | Superior Smokers | |
| 12 | 587.3 | CrossRoad Cookers BBQ | 12 | 588 | Smokin’ 42 BBQ | |
| 13 | 586.6 | Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack | 13 | 587.9 | Cookin W Stump .Com | |
| 14 | 586.6 | Dirty South BBQ | 14 | 586.9 | Smokin’ AJ’s | |
| 15 | 583.9 | Bubba Grills | 15 | 586.9 | Bubba Grills | |
| 16 | 583.9 | Blazin Butts | 16 | 585.6 | Drive By Smokers | |
| 17 | 582.7 | Old Henry’s BBQ | 17 | 585.6 | Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack | |
| 18 | 582.2 | Drive By Smokers | 18 | 585 | Captian Jacks BBQ | |
| 19 | 582.2 | Law DawgBBQ | 19 | 584 | Up n Smoke | |
| 20 | 582.1 | Que the Music | 20 | 583.4 | Cook’s Portable Smokehouse | |
| 21 | 581.1 | E. T. s’s BBQ | 21 | 582.1 | Aunt Mary’s BBQ Brigade | |
| 22 | 579.7 | Smokey Butts | 22 | 581.5 | Smokey Butts | |
| 23 | 579 | Wilde Smoke | 23 | 581.1 | Blazin Butts | |
| 24 | 578.4 | DW Kountry Cookerss | 24 | 580.7 | Law DawgBBQ | |
| 25 | 578 | Double D’s Dirt | 25 | 580.5 | Muchees Smokehouse | |
| 26 | 577 | Heavenly Hawgs | 26 | 579.7 | 5 oclock Somehwere | |
| 27 | 576.8 | Dixie Davis Smokers | 27 | 579.5 | Dixie Davis Smokers | |
| 28 | 575.7 | Aunt Mary’s BBQ Brigade | 28 | 579.4 | Double D’s Dirt | |
| 29 | 575.1 | Rescue Smokers | 29 | 579 | E. T. s’s BBQ | |
| 30 | 574.7 | Smokin’ 42 BBQ | 30 | 578.7 | Rescue Smokers | |
| 31 | 574.5 | Fiddlers BBQ | 31 | 574.5 | Old Henry’s BBQ | |
| 32 | 574.4 | Muchees Smokehouse | 32 | 574.1 | CrossRoad Cookers BBQ | |
| 33 | 573.1 | Forest Fine Foods | 33 | 573.1 | Anarque | |
| 34 | 572.5 | Rufus Smoke BBQ | 34 | 572.7 | Shadetree smokers | |
| 35 | 572.4 | Cookin W Stump .Com | 35 | 569.9 | Comsouth Oinker’s | |
| 36 | 571.6 | Anarque | 36 | 568 | Watts Smokin | |
| 37 | 570.9 | Party Fowl BBQ | 37 | 567.3 | Rufus Smoke BBQ | |
| 38 | 568.8 | Comsouth Oinker’s | 38 | 565.4 | Southern Paradise | |
| 39 | 568.6 | Wee Cookin | 39 | 565.3 | Smokin Swine BBA | |
| 40 | 567.9 | Swamp Smoke Rizin BBQ | 40 | 565 | Swamp Smoke Rizin BBQ | |
| 41 | 564.5 | Up n Smoke | 41 | 562.1 | Wilde Smoke | |
| 42 | 564.4 | 5 oclock Somehwere | 42 | 555.6 | Wee Cookin |
| PORK LOIN | ||
| 1 | 589.4 | Budmeisters |
| 2 | 583.8 | Dirty South BBQ |
| 3 | 562.4 | Anarque |
| 4 | 593.8 | DW Kountry Cookerss |
| 5 | 591.5 | Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack |
| 6 | 590 | CrossRoad Cookers BBQ |
| 7 | 589.1 | Captian Jacks BBQ |
| 8 | 588.6 | Smokin’ 42 BBQ |
| 9 | 587.5 | Comsouth Oinker’s |
| 10 | 586.3 | Muchees Smokehouse |
| 11 | 583.9 | Heavenly Hawgs |
| 12 | 583.9 | Smokey Butts |
| 13 | 582.3 | Rufus Smoke BBQ |
| 14 | 580.5 | Old Henry’s BBQ |
| 15 | 580.4 | Bubba Grills |
| 16 | 580.2 | Rescue Smokers |
| 17 | 579.6 | Up n Smoke |
| 18 | 578.7 | Forest Fine Foods |
| 19 | 577.3 | Blazin Butts |
| 20 | 576.9 | Killer B’s BBQ |
| 21 | 576.4 | Superior Smokers |
| 22 | 575.8 | Que the Music |
| 23 | 575.7 | Law DawgBBQ |
| 24 | 575.4 | Watts Smokin |
| 25 | 574.7 | Cookin W Stump .Com |
| 26 | 574.4 | Dixie Davis Smokers |
| 27 | 574.3 | Shadetree smokers |
| 28 | 573.7 | 5 oclock Somehwere |
| 29 | 572.5 | Swamp Smoke Rizin BBQ |
| 30 | 572.1 | E. T. s’s BBQ |
| 31 | 571.8 | Cook’s Portable Smokehouse |
| 32 | 571.7 | Smokin’ AJ’s |
| 33 | 570.5 | Smokin Swine BBA |
| 34 | 569.7 | Fiddlers BBQ |
| 35 | 568.8 | Aunt Mary’s BBQ Brigade |
| 36 | 568.2 | Wilde Smoke |
| 37 | 565.5 | Party Fowl BBQ |
| 38 | 564 | Southern Paradise |
| 39 | 561.8 | Drive By Smokers |
| 40 | 561.3 | Double D’s Dirt |
| 41 | 560.3 | Bethel Smokers |
| 42 | 547.8 | Wee Cookin |
| Ribs | Pulled | Loin | Total | |||
| 1 | Budmeisters | 596.7 | 596.4 | 595.4 | 1788.5 | |
| 2 | Dirty South BBQ | 586.6 | 590.6 | 595.4 | 1772.6 | |
| 3 | Killer B’s BBQ | 592.8 | 598.2 | 576.9 | 1767.9 | |
| 4 | DW Kountry Cookerss | 578.4 | 593.9 | 593.8 | 1766.1 | |
| 5 | Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack | 586.6 | 585.6 | 591.5 | 1763.7 | |
| 6 | Captian Jacks BBQ | 587.6 | 585 | 589.1 | 1761.7 | |
| 7 | Superior Smokers | 596.1 | 588.5 | 576.4 | 1761 | |
| 8 | CrossRoad Cookers BBQ | 587.3 | 574.1 | 590 | 1751.4 | |
| 9 | Smokin’ 42 BBQ | 574.7 | 588 | 588.6 | 1751.3 | |
| 10 | Bubba Grills | 583.9 | 586.9 | 580.4 | 1751.2 | |
| 11 | Que the Music | 582.1 | 593 | 575.8 | 1750.9 | |
| 12 | Heavenly Hawgs | 577 | 588.8 | 583.9 | 1749.7 | |
| 13 | Smokin’ AJ’s | 589 | 586.9 | 571.7 | 1747.6 | |
| 14 | Bethel Smokers | 595.1 | 591.5 | 560.3 | 1746.9 | |
| 15 | Smokey Butts | 579.7 | 581.5 | 583.9 | 1745.1 | |
| 16 | Forest Fine Foods | 573.1 | 591.8 | 578.7 | 1743.6 | |
| 17 | Cook’s Portable Smokehouse | 587.6 | 583.4 | 571.8 | 1742.8 | |
| 18 | Blazin Butts | 583.9 | 581.1 | 577.3 | 1742.3 | |
| 19 | Shadetree smokers | 594.2 | 572.7 | 574.3 | 1741.2 | |
| 20 | Muchees Smokehouse | 574.4 | 580.5 | 586.3 | 1741.2 | |
| 21 | Anarque | 571.6 | 573.1 | 596.2 | 1740.9 | |
| 22 | Law DawgBBQ | 582.2 | 580.7 | 575.7 | 1738.6 | |
| 23 | Old Henry’s BBQ | 582.7 | 574.5 | 580.5 | 1737.7 | |
| 24 | Fiddlers BBQ | 574.5 | 590.8 | 569.7 | 1735 | |
| 25 | Cookin W Stump .Com | 572.4 | 587.9 | 574.7 | 1735 | |
| 26 | Rescue Smokers | 575.1 | 578.7 | 580.2 | 1734 | |
| 27 | Watts Smokin | 590 | 568 | 575.4 | 1733.4 | |
| 28 | E. T. s’s BBQ | 581.1 | 579 | 572.1 | 1732.2 | |
| 29 | Dixie Davis Smokers | 576.8 | 579.5 | 574.4 | 1730.7 | |
| 30 | Drive By Smokers | 582.2 | 585.6 | 561.8 | 1729.6 | |
| 31 | Up n Smoke | 564.5 | 584 | 579.6 | 1728.1 | |
| 32 | Aunt Mary’s BBQ Brigade | 575.7 | 582.1 | 568.8 | 1726.6 | |
| 33 | Comsouth Oinker’s | 568.8 | 569.9 | 587.5 | 1726.2 | |
| 34 | Smokin Swine BBA | 589.7 | 565.3 | 570.5 | 1725.5 | |
| 35 | Party Fowl BBQ | 570.9 | 588.8 | 565.5 | 1725.2 | |
| 36 | Southern Paradise | 593.8 | 565.4 | 564 | 1723.2 | |
| 37 | Rufus Smoke BBQ | 572.5 | 567.3 | 582.3 | 1722.1 | |
| 38 | Double D’s Dirt | 578 | 579.4 | 561.3 | 1718.7 | |
| 39 | 5 oclock Somehwere | 564.4 | 579.7 | 573.7 | 1717.8 | |
| 40 | Wilde Smoke | 579 | 562.1 | 568.2 | 1709.3 | |
| 41 | Swamp Smoke Rizin BBQ | 567.9 | 565 | 572.5 | 1705.4 | |
| 42 | Wee Cookin | 568.6 | 555.6 | 547.8 | 1672 |