Just Blowin’ Smoke Wins the Shootout at Doc Holiday Festival
The GBA made its debut at the Doc Holiday Festival in downtown Griffin, GA and it turned into a 3 way shootout for the Grand Championship. In the end, the Loin entry by Robin Bowles & Just Blowin’ Smoke topped the Pulled Pork box by Dixie Que’s Rick Godfrey and the Ribs entry of Gary Lanton of Holy Smokes.
Grand Champion – Just Blowin’ Smoke
Dixie Que finaled in Pulled Pork, finished 6th in Ribs and 11th in Loin to take the Reserve Championship for the top cumulative score in the three preliminary rounds.
Reserve Champion – Dixie Que
Just Blowin’ Smoke’s championship Loin box topped the category. Two Fat Boys & A Grill came in second with Rolling Smoke Competition Que in third place. Swine Time Grillin’ Team took fourth place. 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers edged Bearded BBQ for fifth place on the tiebreaker. Real South BBQ grabbed seventh place and RTC Smokin’ grabbed eighth place. Fiddler’s BBQ in ninth and H & J Cooking Team in tenth rounded out the top 10,
Dixie Que won Pulled Pork with Just Blowin’ Smoke the runner-up. Fiddler’s BBQ came in third with H & J Cooking Team in fourth. Swine Time Grillin’ Team nailed down the fifth spot. Sixth place went to Rub Shakers Que and seventh place went to Old Henry’s BBQ. In eight place was Holy Smokes; in ninth place was Smokin’ J’s and in tenth place was Real South BBQ.
First Place Ribs – Holy Smokes
Holy Smokes had the best box of Ribs on the day. Two Fat Boys & A Grill took second place with 29 Barbecue taking third place. 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers edged out Rub Shakers Que for fourth place by 0.3 of a point. Dixie Que finished in the sixth spot. In seventh place was Fiddler’s BBQ with RTC Smokin’ in eighth place. Real South BBQ and Just Blowin’ Smoke tied for ninth place with Real South BBQ coming out on top in the tiebreaker.
The Doc Holiday Festival also held a GBA sanctioned Cooking for Fun contest. The GBA’s Cooking for Fun division competes in two categories: Pulled Pork and Ribs. Simply Q topped Swine Dining in Pulled Pork. Swine Dining returned the favor by topping Simply Q to win the Ribs category.
CFF Pulled Pork 1st Place – Simply Q
CFF Ribs 1st Place – Swine Dining
The GBA teams, judges and officials had a great time at the Doc Holiday Festival and are looking forward to a return trip in 2015. The next stop on the GBA contest trail with another first year event at the South Cobb BBQ & Blues Festival at the EpiCenter in Austell, GA. Full results below:
| LOIN | PULLED PORK | |||||
| 1 | 598.3 | Just Blowing Smoke | 1 | 595.8 | Dixie Que | |
| 2 | 594.1 | Two Fat Boys & A Grill | 2 | 595.5 | Just Blowing Smoke | |
| 3 | 588.7 | Rollin’ Smoke Competition Que | 3 | 588 | Fiddlers BBQ | |
| 4 | 585.2 | Swine Time Cooking Team | 4 | 590.8 | H&J’s | |
| 5 | 583.6 | 92BBQ Assassin Smokers | 5 | 587.2 | Swine Time Cooking Team | |
| 6 | 583.6 | Bearded BBQ | 6 | 582.9 | Rub Shakers Que | |
| 7 | 583 | Real South BBQ | 7 | 581 | Old Henry BBQ | |
| 8 | 579.9 | RTC Smokin | 8 | 580.2 | Holy Smokes | |
| 9 | 579.5 | Fiddlers BBQ | 9 | 579.7 | Smokin J’s Barbeque | |
| 10 | 577.7 | H&J’s | 10 | 579 | Real South BBQ | |
| 11 | 577.4 | Dixie Que | 11 | 578.3 | 92BBQ Assassin Smokers | |
| 12 | 575.1 | Holy Smokes | 12 | 577.7 | RTC Smokin | |
| 13 | 574.1 | Smokin J’s Barbeque | 13 | 575.3 | 29 Barbeque | |
| 14 | 573.5 | Smokin Butts BBQ | 14 | 571.1 | Killer Swine | |
| 15 | 571.1 | Killer Swine | 15 | 569.5 | Bearded BBQ | |
| 16 | 569.8 | 29 Barbeque | 16 | 564.3 | Daddy-O’s | |
| 17 | 564.8 | Daddy-O’s | 17 | 563.6 | Rollin’ Smoke Competition Que | |
| 18 | 562.2 | Old Henry BBQ | 18 | 559.3 | Smokin Butts BBQ | |
| 19 | 561.3 | Rub Shakers Que | 19 | 556.9 | Two Fat Boys & A Grill | |
| 20 | 556.2 | Dawg Pit BBQ | 20 | 551.7 | Dawg Pit BBQ |
| RIBS | ||
| 1 | 596.1 | Holy Smokes |
| 2 | 594.8 | Two Fat Boys & A Grill |
| 3 | 591.1 | 29 Barbeque |
| 4 | 587.8 | 92BBQ Assassin Smokers |
| 5 | 587.5 | Rub Shakers Que |
| 6 | 584 | Dixie Que |
| 7 | 582.6 | Fiddlers BBQ |
| 8 | 579.9 | RTC Smokin |
| 9 | 576.6 | Real South BBQ |
| 10 | 576.6 | Just Blowing Smoke |
| 11 | 574.7 | Swine Time Cooking Team |
| 12 | 572.5 | Rollin’ Smoke Competition Que |
| 13 | 569.2 | Daddy-O’s |
| 14 | 567 | H&J’s |
| 15 | 566 | Killer Swine |
| 16 | 563.9 | Dawg Pit BBQ |
| 17 | 558.9 | Smokin J’s Barbeque |
| 18 | 557.6 | Smokin Butts BBQ |
| 19 | 556.2 | Old Henry BBQ |
| Reserve Scores | |||||||
| Loin | Pulled | Ribs | Total | ||||
| 1 | Just Blowing Smoke | 595.7 | 594.8 | 576.6 | 1767.1 | ||
| 2 | Dixie Que | 577.4 | 597.1 | 584 | 1758.5 | ||
| 3 | Fiddlers BBQ | 579.5 | 591.2 | 582.6 | 1753.3 | ||
| 4 | Holy Smokes | 575.1 | 580.2 | 595.1 | 1750.4 | ||
| 5 | 92BBQ Assassin Smokers | 583.61 | 578.3 | 587.8 | 1749.71 | ||
| 6 | Swine Time Cooking Team | 585.2 | 587.2 | 574.7 | 1747.1 | ||
| 7 | 29 Barbeque | 569.8 | 575.3 | 595.5 | 1740.6 | ||
| 8 | Real South BBQ | 583 | 579 | 576.61 | 1738.61 | ||
| 9 | RTC Smokin | 579.9 | 577.7 | 579.9 | 1737.5 | ||
| 10 | H&J’s | 577.7 | 590.8 | 567 | 1735.5 | ||
| 11 | Two Fat Boys & A Grill | 586.6 | 556.9 | 591.2 | 1734.7 | ||
| 12 | Rub Shakers Que | 561.3 | 582.9 | 587.5 | 1731.7 | ||
| 13 | Rollin’ Smoke Competition Que | 595.4 | 563.6 | 572.5 | 1731.5 | ||
| 14 | Smokin J’s Barbeque | 574.1 | 579.7 | 558.9 | 1712.7 | ||
| 15 | Killer Swine | 571.1 | 571.1 | 566 | 1708.2 | ||
| 16 | Old Henry BBQ | 562.2 | 581 | 556.2 | 1699.4 | ||
| 17 | Daddy-O’s | 564.8 | 564.3 | 569.2 | 1698.3 | ||
| 18 | Smokin Butts BBQ | 573.5 | 559.3 | 557.6 | 1690.4 | ||
| 19 | Dawg Pit BBQ | 556.2 | 551.7 | 563.9 | 1671.8 | ||
| 20 | Bearded BBQ | 583.6 | 569.5 | 0 | 1153.1 | ||
Cooking For Fun Pulled Pork
| 599.1 | Simply “Q” |
| 595.4 | Swine Dining |
Cooking For Fun Ribs
| 588.5 | Swine Dining |
| 581.8 | Simply “Q” |
| 573 | Cookin & Drinkin BBQ |