Georgia Barbecue Association

Oct 10 2017

Smokin’ J’s Wins First Grand at Cadence Fair

Woodstock, GA – Doug and Joann Johnson of Smokin’ J’s BBQ claimed their first Grand Championship with their winning Ribs entry at the Cadence Fair BBQ competion.

Grand Champion – Smokin’ J’s BBQ

We Want Que made finals in both Loin and Ribs along with 11th in Pulled Pork to take home the Reserve Grand Championship.

Reserve Grand Champion – We Want Que

Southern Hogs won the Loin category; followed by We Want Que in 2nd and Smokin the Good Stuff in 3rd place. In Pulled Pork, Rescue Smokers took top honors. Smokin the Good Stuff was runner-up with Just Blowing Smoke in third. Smokin’ J’s BBQ was 1st in Ribs with If You Smoke It They Will Come taking 2nd and We Want Que rounding out the top three.

		LOIN			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	583.8	Southern Hogs	1	585.3	Rescue Smokers	1	593	Smokin J’s BBQ
2	575	We Want Que	2	577.5	Smokin the Good Stuff	2	582.3	If you Smoke It, They will Come
3	573	Smokin the Good Stuff	3	575.9	Just Blowing Smoke	3	573.9	We Want Que
4	596.8	Bubonic BBQ	4	595.4	Southern Hogs	4	594.5	Napalm Sticks To Pigs
5	596.4	Rescue Smokers	5	593.4	Hold Your Horses BBQ	5	593.8	Just Blowing Smoke
6	594.5	Hold Your Horses BBQ	6	592.81	Hootie Q	6	591.8	Smoke Shack BBQ
7	593.1	Hootie Q	7	592.8	If You Smoke it, They will Come	7	591.5	Big Ox BBQ
8	590.5	Kelvin’s BBQ	8	591.8	Bubonic BBQ	8	591.2	Pirates of PorkScents
9	589.3	Flyin Pig BBQ	9	591.1	Smoking Butts BBQ	9	588.5	Smoking Butts BBQ
10	588.8	Pirates of PorkScents	10	590.2	Flyin Pig BBQ	10	585.6	Smokin the Good Stuff
11	583	Just Blowing Smoke	11	589.3	We Want Que	11	584.9	Rescue Smokers
12	579.3	Big Ox BBQ	12	589.2	Big Bad Wolf BBQ	12	583.9	Southern Hogs
13	579.3	Smokin J’s BBQ	13	584.4	Big Ox BBQ	13	583.5	Kelvin’s BBQ
14	578.8	East Coast BBQ	14	582.7	Smoke Shack BBQ	14	583	Big Bad Wolf BBQ
15	578.3	Saucy’s BBQ	15	580.6	Squealz on Wheelz	15	582.7	Flyin Pig BBQ
16	577.3	Smoking Butts BBQ	16	580	We Rub Our Butts	16	582	Saucy’s BBQ
17	573.7	We Rub Our Butts	17	579.3	Pirates of PorkScents	17	581.3	East Coast BBQ
18	572.8	GTQ	18	579	Napalm Sticks To Pigs	18	578.4	Hold Your Horses BBQ
19	572.4	If You Smoke it, They will Come	19	572.6	Kelvin’s BBQ	19	573.2	GTQ
20	571.2	Big Bad Wolf BBQ	20	571.4	Saucy’s BBQ	20	572.8	Squealz on Wheelz
21	570.1	Napalm Sticks To Pigs	21	567.5	Smokin J’s BBQ	21	572.6	Hootie Q
22	569.4	Squealz on Wheelz	22	565.9	GTQ	22	564.4	We Rub Our Butts
23	567.9	Smoke Shack BBQ	23	564.5	East Coast BBQ	23	555.3	Bubonic BBQ

	Reserve Scores	Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	We Want Que	598.0	589.3	596.4	1783.7
2	Smokin the Good Stuff	599.7	598.2	585.6	1783.5
3	Southern Hogs	599.7	595.4	583.9	1779.0
4	Rescue Smokers	596.4	595.8	584.9	1777.1
5	Just Blowing Smoke	583.0	596.7	593.8	1773.5
6	Hold Your Horses BBQ	594.5	593.4	578.4	1766.3
7	Flyin Pig BBQ	589.3	590.2	582.7	1762.2
8	If You Smoke it, They will Come	572.4	592.8	596.7	1761.9
9	Pirates of PorkScents	588.8	579.3	591.2	1759.3
10	Hootie Q	593.1	592.8	572.6	1758.5
11	Smoking Butts BBQ	577.3	591.1	588.5	1756.9
12	Big Ox BBQ	579.3	584.4	591.5	1755.2
13	Kelvin’s BBQ	590.5	572.6	583.5	1746.6
14	Bubonic BBQ	596.8	591.8	555.3	1743.9
15	Napalm Sticks To Pigs	570.1	579.0	594.5	1743.6
16	Big Bad Wolf BBQ	571.2	589.2	583.0	1743.4
17	Smokin J’s BBQ	579.3	567.5	596.1	1742.9
18	Smoke Shack BBQ	567.9	582.7	591.8	1742.4
19	Saucy’s BBQ	578.3	571.4	582.0	1731.7
20	East Coast BBQ	578.8	564.5	581.3	1724.6
21	Squealz on Wheelz	569.4	580.6	572.8	1722.8
22	We Rub Our Butts	573.7	580.0	564.4	1718.1
23	GTQ	572.8	565.9	573.2	1711.9

Sep 26 2017

Blue Diablo BBQ Wins First Grand at Doc Holiday

Griffin, GA — The Blue Diablo BBQ team, led by Randy Meadows, captured their first Grand Championship at the Doc Holiday BBQ & Music Festival. Their Rib entry was judged the best overall entry in the finals round and got the last call of the day.

Grand Champion – Blue Diablo BBQ

Matt Sapp & Southern Hogs made finals in both Pulled Pork and Ribs plus added a 5th place showing in Loin to win the Reserve Grand Championship for the highest cumulative score in the three preliminary rounds. Robby Royal of Rescue Smokers had a perfect 600 score in the Ribs preliminary round.

Reserve Grand Champion – Southern Hogs

Rescue Smokers won the Loin category with Just Blowing Smoke taking 2nd & Smoking the Good Stuff taking 3rd place. It was Southern Hogs for the win in Pulled Pork. Swine Dining came in 2nd and We Want Que finished in 3rd place. Blue Diablo BBQ topped the Rib category. Rescue Smokers was runner-up with Southern Hog taking 3rd place.

In the GBA sanctioned Cooking for Fun division, Carlos Thornton & Bull Hawgs won Pulled Pork while Wade Hutcheson & Notta Que won Ribs.


		LOIN			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	FINAL	Rescue Smokers	1	FINAL	Southern Hogs	1	FINAL	Blue Diablo BBQ
2	FINAL	Just Blowing Smoke	2	FINAL	SwineDining	2	FINAL	Rescue Smokers
3	FINAL	Smoking the Good Stuff	3	FINAL	We Want Que	3	FINAL	Southern Hogs
4	596.4	Hootie Q	4	593.91	Captain Jacks Freedom BBQ	4	596.4	Just Blowing Smoke
5	596.1	Southern Hogs	5	593.9	Pirates of Pork Scents	5	595.2	Smoking the Good Stuff
6	595.4	Swine Dining	6	591.5	Johnson Boys BBQ	6	593.9	Swine Dining
7	594.8	The BBQ Ninja	7	590.9	TLS BBQ	7	592.21	Captain Jacks Freedom BBQ
8	594.5	CaJenn Q	8	590.21	Bearded BBQ	8	592.2	Pirates of Pork Scents
9	592.1	Hold Your Horses BBQ	9	590.2	Just Blowing Smoke	9	591.2	The BBQ Ninja
10	591.5	Raging Smoke BBQ	10	589.6	Rescue Smokers	10	590	Burnt Bermuda BBQ
11	586.3	Johnson Boys BBQ	11	589.3	Wright on Q	11	587.8	Rub Shakers Q
12	586.2	Smoke Stack Lightning	12	588.9	Hold Your Horses BBQ	12	586.7	Smoke Stack Lightning
13	586.2	Wright on Q	13	588.5	Flint River Cooking Team	13	586.3	Wright on Q
14	584.2	We Want Q	14	588.5	Smoke Stack Lightning	14	586.3	CaJenn Q
15	583.9	Big Butts BBQ	15	585.7	Kelvin’s BBQ	15	586.3	Flint River Cookers
16	582.7	Rub Shakers Q	16	584.3	Lang BBQ Team	16	583	Hot Ash Q
17	582.3	Hot Ash Q	17	583.7	JB’s Butthouse	17	583	Flint River Cooking Team
18	581	Captain Jacks Freedom BBQ	18	583.7	CaJenn Q	18	583	Pork’N Butts
19	580.5	TLS BBQ	19	583.2	Jack Rabbit’s Smokin Q	19	582.6	We Want Q
20	574.4	Daddy-O’s	20	581.4	Raging Smoke BBQ	20	582.2	TLS BBQ
21	574.2	JB’s Butthouse	21	579.5	Hootie Q	21	582	Hold Your Horses BBQ
22	572.1	Bearded BBQ	22	579.5	Flint River Cookers	22	580.8	Hootie Q
23	571.6	Pork’N Butts	23	578.4	Pork’N Butts	23	578.7	Big Butts BBQ
24	569.5	Flint River Cookers	24	578	The BBQ Ninja	24	577.3	Raging Smoke BBQ
25	569.3	Lang BBQ Team	25	576.1	Daddy-O’s	25	576.5	Jack Rabbit’s Smokin Q
26	568.2	Flint River Cooking Team	26	575.3	Blue Diablo BBQ	26	576.1	Lang BBQ Team
27	567.5	Burnt Bermuda BBQ	27	575.2	Rub Shakers Q	27	576.1	Bearded BBQ
28	566.9	H & J	28	574.8	Burnt Bermuda BBQ	28	575.4	Johnson Boys BBQ
29	566.7	Blue Diablo BBQ	29	574.2	Smoking the Good Stuff	29	573.8	H & J
30	566.6	Pirates of Pork Scents	30	573.8	Big Butts BBQ	30	570.8	Kelvin’s BBQ
31	562.3	Just Smoke “N” Around BBQ	31	571.5	H & J	31	569.6	Daddy-O’s
32	558.5	Jack Rabbit’s Smokin Q	32	567.2	Just Smoke “N” Around BBQ	32	567.7	Just Smoke “N” Around BBQ
33	554.5	Kelvin’s BBQ	33	566.2	Hot Ash Q	33	557.5	JB’s Butthouse

	Reserve Scores	Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	Southern Hogs	596.1	594.8	599.1	1790.0
2	Rescue Smokers	599.1	589.6	600.0	1788.7
3	Swine Dining	595.4	599.1	593.9	1788.4
4	Just Blowing Smoke	599.4	590.2	596.4	1786.0
5	Smoking the Good Stuff	599.7	574.2	595.2	1769.1
6	Captain Jacks Freedom BBQ	581.0	593.9	592.2	1767.1
7	CaJenn Q	594.5	583.7	586.3	1764.5
8	The BBQ Ninja	594.8	578.0	591.2	1764.0
9	Hold Your Horses BBQ	592.1	588.9	582.0	1763.0
10	We Want Q	584.2	595.2	582.6	1762.0
11	Wright on Q	586.2	589.3	586.3	1761.8
12	Smoke Stack Lightning	586.2	588.5	586.7	1761.4
13	Hootie Q	596.4	579.5	580.8	1756.7
14	TLS BBQ	580.5	590.9	582.2	1753.6
15	Johnson Boys BBQ	586.3	591.5	575.4	1753.2
16	Pirates of Pork Scents	566.6	593.9	592.2	1752.7
17	Raging Smoke BBQ	591.5	581.4	577.3	1750.2
18	Rub Shakers Q	582.7	575.2	587.8	1745.7
19	Blue Diablo BBQ	566.7	575.3	599.1	1741.1
20	Flint River Cooking Team	568.2	588.5	583.0	1739.7
21	Bearded BBQ	572.1	590.2	576.1	1738.4
22	Big Butts BBQ	583.9	573.8	578.7	1736.4
23	Flint River Cookers	569.5	579.5	586.3	1735.3
24	Pork’N Butts	571.6	578.4	583.0	1733.0
25	Burnt Bermuda BBQ	567.5	574.8	590.0	1732.3
26	Hot Ash Q	582.3	566.2	583.0	1731.5
27	Lang BBQ Team	569.3	584.3	576.1	1729.7
28	Daddy-O’s	574.4	576.1	569.6	1720.1
29	Jack Rabbit’s Smokin Q	558.5	583.2	576.5	1718.2
30	JB’s Butthouse	574.2	583.7	557.5	1715.4
31	H & J	566.9	571.5	573.8	1712.2
32	Kelvin’s BBQ	554.5	585.7	570.8	1711.0
33	Just Smoke “N” Around BBQ	562.3	567.2	567.7	1697.2

COOKING FOR FUN

		PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	595.1	Ball Hawgs	1	586.5	Notta’ Clue
2	586.6	Mason Dixon	2	583.9	Mason Dixon
3	583.9	John’s BBQ Smokehouse	3	582	Ball Hawgs
4	581.1	Notta’ Clue	4	581.9	BPG
5	576.1	BPG	5	572.1	John’s BBQ Smokehouse

Sep 20 2017

Flying Pigs Take Grand in Douglas

Brian Griffis of Flying Pigs BBQ got to hoist the “Big Check”for $5,000, the largest Grand Champion award in GBA history, as his Rib entry was the top scorer in the finals round at the South Georgia BBQ & Outdoor Festival in Douglas. It was a very even competition as 9 different teams advanced to the Finals round in the three meat categories.

Grand Champion – Flying Pigs

The Hold Your Horses BBQ team of Cary Chasteen made finals in Loin, placed 6th in Ribs and 7th in Pulled Pork to capture the Reserve Grand Championship and $2500.

Reserve Grand Champion – Hold Your Horses BBQ

Tim Coleman & Real South BBQ made finals for the first time ever on the Loin category. Their finals round Loin box was the best in the category & took 1st place. Hold Your Horses was runner-up with Johnson Boys BBQ in third. Southern Hogs topped the Pulled Pork category with Old Henry BBQ in 2nd & Hard Rock Hill BBQ rounding out the top three. Flying Pigs won Ribs. Bubba Grills came in 2nd place and Weekend Warriors took 3rd place.

		LOIN			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	FINALS	Real South BBQ	1	FINALS	Southern Hogs	1	FINALS	Flying Pigs BBQ
2	FINALS	Hold Your Horses BBQ	2	FINALS	Old Henry BBQ	2	FINALS	Bubba Grills
3	FINALS	Johnson Boys	3	FINALS	Hard Rock Hill BBQ	3	FINALS	Weedend Warriors
4	598.8	Flint River Cookers	4	594.5	Flint River Cookers	4	594.2	Southern Hogs
5	595.8	2 Smokin Phat Boyz	5	594.2	Hootie Q	5	591.9	Smoking Outlaws
6	595.5	Smokin the Good Stuff	6	591.5	Flyin Pigs BBQ	6	591.8	Hold Your Horses BBQ
7	594.81	Weekend Warriors	7	590.3	Hold Your Horses BBQ	7	591.3	Captian Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team
8	594.8	Big Butts BBQ	8	590	Kelvin’s BBQ	8	591.2	Hootie Q
9	591.3	Flyin Pigs BBQ	9	589.5	Smoking Outlaws	9	590.8	Kelvin’s BBQ
10	590.6	Southern Hogs	10	589.1	Off the Chain	10	590.5	Real South BBQ
11	590.3	Off the Chain	11	588.7	Okefenokee Smokers	11	589.2	Okefenokee Smokers
12	590.2	Rescue Smokers	12	586.3	Real South BBQ	12	586.6	Raging Smoke
13	585	Real Licious Q	13	585.3	Captian Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team	13	586.3	Flint River Cookers
14	584	Smoking Outlaws	14	585.3	2 Smokin Phat Boyz	14	583.9	Big Butts BBQ
15	583	Americana Grillers	15	582.7	Weekend Warriors	15	583.6	Blue Diablo BBQ
16	581.4	Just Smoke ‘N’ Around	16	581.7	Rescue Smokers	16	581.1	Hard Rock Hill BBQ
17	581.1	Blue Diablo BBQ	17	579.6	Smoke Show	17	580.7	Bayshore Porkers
18	580.4	Raging Smoke	18	579.3	Raging Smoke	18	578.4	Old Henry’s BBQ
19	578.8	Captian Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team	19	579.2	8-Finger Jack Stew & Q	19	577.8	Smoke Show
20	576.5	Bubba Grills	20	577.7	Bayshore Porkers	20	575.1	Real Licious Q
21	571.7	Old Henry’s BBQ	21	577.4	Johnson Boys	21	574.8	Smokin the Good Stuff
22	569.3	Okefenokee Smokers	22	575.6	Bubba Grills	22	573.8	Off the Chain
23	568	8-Finger Jack Stew & Q	23	574.5	Just Smoke ‘N’ Around	23	567.2	Just Smoke ‘N’ Around
24	561.8	Smoke Show	24	572	Smokin the Good Stuff	24	565.9	Rescue Smokers
25	561.3	Kelvin’s BBQ	25	567.3	Big Butts BBQ	25	564.8	Johnson Boys
26	560	Hootie Q	26	566.9	Real Licious Q	26	563	Americana Grillers
27	559.3	Bayshore Porkers	27	564.2	Blue Diablo BBQ	27	533.8	8-Finger Jack Stew & Q
28	549.9	Hard Rock Hill BBQ	28	559.5	Americana Grillers	28	516	2 Smokin Phat Boyz

	Reserve Scores	Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	Hold Your Horses BBQ	599.7	590.3	591.8	1781.8
2	Southern Hogs	590.6	596.1	594.2	1780.9
3	Flint River Cookers	598.8	594.5	586.3	1779.6
4	Flyin Pigs BBQ	591.3	591.5	595.2	1778.0
5	Real South BBQ	599.7	586.3	590.5	1776.5
6	Weekend Warriors	594.8	582.7	598.8	1776.3
7	Smoking Outlaws	584.0	589.5	591.9	1765.4
8	Captian Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team	578.8	585.3	591.3	1755.4
9	Off the Chain	590.3	589.1	573.8	1753.2
10	Bubba Grills	576.5	575.6	598.8	1750.9
11	Old Henry’s BBQ	571.7	598.2	578.4	1748.3
12	Okefenokee Smokers	569.3	588.7	589.2	1747.2
13	Raging Smoke	580.4	579.3	586.6	1746.3
14	Big Butts BBQ	594.8	567.3	583.9	1746.0
15	Hootie Q	560.0	594.2	591.2	1745.4
16	Smokin the Good Stuff	595.5	572.0	574.8	1742.3
17	Kelvin’s BBQ	561.3	590.0	590.8	1742.1
18	Johnson Boys	599.7	577.4	564.8	1741.9
19	Rescue Smokers	590.2	581.7	565.9	1737.8
20	Hard Rock Hill BBQ	549.9	599.1	581.1	1730.1
21	Blue Diablo BBQ	581.1	564.2	583.6	1728.9
22	Real Licious Q	585.0	566.9	575.1	1727.0
23	Just Smoke ‘N’ Around	581.4	574.5	567.2	1723.1
24	Smoke Show	561.8	579.6	577.8	1719.2
25	Bayshore Porkers	559.3	577.7	580.7	1717.7
26	Americana Grillers	583.0	559.5	563.0	1705.5
27	2 Smokin Phat Boyz	595.8	585.3	516.0	1697.1
28	8-Finger Jack Stew & Q	568.0	579.2	533.8	1681.0

Sep 18 2017

Captain Jack Rises to Mountain Top

Grand Champion – Captain Jack Freedom BBQ

Reserve Champion – Hold Your Horses BBQ

Jack Fallin of Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team rib entry in finals was the top score in the finals round giving the team the Grand Championship. Hold Your Horses BBQ, led by Cary Chasteen, had the top cumulative score in the preliminaries to take home the Reserve Grand Championship

Hold Your Horses BBQ won both the Loin & Pulled Pork categories. We Want Que took second in Loin with CaJenn Smokin Que taking third place. Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team added a runner-up in Pulled Pork to their winning Ribs. Southern Hogs was 3rd in Pulled Pork. Just Blowing Smoke & Hootie Q took 2nd & 3rd respectively in Ribs.

		LOIN			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	Finals	Hold Your Horses BBQ	1	Finals	Hold Your Horses BBQ	1	Finals	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ
2	Finals	We Want Que	2	Finals	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ	2	Finals	Just BlowingSmoke
3	Finals	Cajenn Smokin Que	3	Finals	SouthernHogs	3	Finals	Hooite Q
4	596.1	Rub Shakers Que	4	595.8	Hootie Q	4	594.5	Bite My Butt BBQ
5	595.7	Bubba Grills	5	591.5	Big OX BBQ	5	593.6	Smokin the Good Stuff
6	595.4	Rescue Smokers	6	591.2	Bite My Butt BBQ	6	592.8	Daddy-O’s BBQ
7	595.1	Southern Hogs	7	590.9	Smokin J’s BBQ	7	592.2	Under Construction BBQ
8	594.2	Hootie Q	8	590.3	CaJenn Smokin Que	8	591.5	Wright On Q
9	593.3	Smokin the Good Stuff	9	587.61	Under Construction BBQ	9	591	Rescue Smokers
10	589.9	Weekend Warriors	10	587.6	Rescue Smokers	10	590.8	Water Hogs
11	586.3	Wright On Q	11	587.5	Daddy-O’s BBQ	11	590.5	Hold Your Horses BBQ
12	585	Just Blowing Smoke	12	587.5	Smokin the Good Stuff	12	590.3	Saucy’s BBQ
13	585	GTQ	13	586.3	Bubba Grills	13	588.3	Pirates of Porkscents
14	581.3	McQue	14	585.7	Pirates of Porkscents	14	588.2	Smokin J’s BBQ
15	581.1	Under Construction BBQ	15	585.6	Rub Shakers Que	15	586.7	We Want Que
16	578.7	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ	16	583.3	Water Hogs	16	584.6	Bubba Grills
17	578.6	Big OX BBQ	17	582.5	Saucy’s BBQ	17	584.5	Big OX BBQ
18	575	Napalm Sticks to Pigs	18	582.1	Napalm Sticks to Pigs	18	584	East Coast BBQ
19	574.2	Smokin J’s BBQ	19	581.4	McQue	19	583.6	Southern Hogs
20	572.1	East Coast BBQ	20	577.8	Weekend Warriors	20	582.3	McQue
21	571.7	Bite My Butt BBQ	21	576.1	Just Blowing Smoke	21	576.1	Weekend Warriors
22	567.5	Saucy’s BBQ	22	575.4	East Coast BBQ	22	575.8	GTQ
23	567.5	Pirates of Porkscents	23	574.2	GTQ	23	570.1	CaJenn Smokin Que
24	567.2	Water Hogs	24	572.1	We Want Que	24	569.9	Rub Shakers Que
25	563	Daddy-O’s BBQ	25	571.5	Wright On Q	25	568.5	Napalm Sticks to Pigs

	Reserve Scores	Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	Hold Your Horses BBQ	599.7	599.7	590.5	1789.9
2	Hootie Q	594.2	595.8	597.1	1787.1
3	Southern Hogs	595.1	599.7	583.6	1778.4
4	Smokin the Good Stuff	593.3	587.5	593.6	1774.4
5	Rescue Smokers	595.4	587.6	591.0	1774.0
6	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ	578.7	598.8	595.5	1773.0
7	Bubba Grills	595.7	586.3	584.6	1766.6
8	Under Construction BBQ	581.1	587.6	592.2	1760.9
9	Just Blowing Smoke	585.0	576.1	599.7	1760.8
10	CaJenn Smokin Que	598.8	590.3	570.1	1759.2
11	Bite My Butt BBQ	571.7	591.2	594.5	1757.4
12	We Want Que	596.8	572.1	586.7	1755.6
13	Big OX BBQ	578.6	591.5	584.5	1754.6
14	Smokin J’s BBQ	574.2	590.9	588.2	1753.3
15	Rub Shakers Que	596.1	585.6	569.9	1751.6
16	Wright On Q	586.3	571.5	591.5	1749.3
17	McQue	581.3	581.4	582.3	1745.0
18	Weekend Warriors	589.9	577.8	576.1	1743.8
19	Daddy-O’s BBQ	563.0	587.5	592.8	1743.3
20	Pirates of Porkscents	567.5	585.7	588.3	1741.5
21	Water Hogs	567.2	583.3	590.8	1741.3
22	Saucy’s BBQ	567.5	582.5	590.3	1740.3
23	GTQ	585.0	574.2	575.8	1735.0
24	East Coast BBQ	572.1	575.4	584.0	1731.5
25	Napalm Sticks to Pigs	575.0	582.1	568.5	1725.6

Jun 08 2017

Holy Smokes Wins Grand at Smoke on the Water

Grand Champion – Holy Smokes

The Smoke on the Water BBQ Contest in Thomaston has a long history as one of the top BBQ contests in the state. This year the contest was sanctioned by the Georgia Barbecue Association (GBA) for the first time. Taking the traditional plunge into the lake as Grand Champions was Holy Smokes. Gary & Dionn Lanton’s team finished a dominant season on the GBA circuit with the win.

Reserve Grand Champion – Rescue Smokers

Rescue Smokers, Pitmaster Robby Royal, also put the finishing touches on a soild season by taking the Reserve Grand Championship.

1st Place Loin – Hootie Q

In the Pork Loin preliminary round Just Blowing Smoke and Hootie Q both recorded perfect 600 scores. They were joined in the Finals round by 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers. Hootie Q had the top score in Finals to win the category. 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers came in 2nd with Just Blowing Smoke finishing in 3rd place

In Pulled Pork all three finalists had perfect 600 scores in the preliminaries. After the final round, Holy Smokes took 1st place, Daddy O’s BBQ took 2nd and Flint River Cookers placed third.

1st Place Ribs – Raging Smoke BBQ

The Ribs category was extremely close as 3 teams tied for the 3rd and final spot in the Finals round. After the tiebreakers were run, Raging Smoke BBQ edged out Rescue Smokers & The Fat Boys of Tenneson Nissan for the spot in the Finals. Raging Smoke won the Finals round and captured 1st place, 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers had a perfect 600 score in preliminaries but finished 2nd. Just Smoke N Around captured 3rd place.

In the Brisket ancillary, Rescue Smokers lead the way. Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team was runner up with Wright on Q in 3rd place.

Full Results:

		LOIN			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	599.3	Hootie Q	1	599.4	Holy Smokes	1	597.5	Raging Smoke
2	594	92/Assassin BBQ	2	594	Daddy O’s BBQ	2	597.2	92/Assassin BBQ
3	590.1	Just Blowing Smoke	3	590	Flint River Cookers	3	589.6	Just Smoke ‘N’ Around
4	599.4	Holy Smokes	4	599.1	Team Hold Your Horses BBQ	4	599.13	Rescue Smokers
5	599.11	Flint River Cookers	5	598.8	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ	5	599.12	The Fat Boys of Tenneson Nissan
6	599.1	Southern Hogs	6	598.5	Rescue Smokers	6	598.81	Bubba Grills
7	598.8	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ	7	597.1	Carter Q	7	598.8	Holy Smokes
8	598.5	Rescue Smokers	8	596.1	Lang BBQ Smokers	8	598.2	Daddy-O’s BBQ
9	596.5	We Want Que	9	595.8	Smokin the Good Stuff	9	596.4	Real South BBQ
10	596.1	Bubba Grills	10	595.21	Hootie Q	10	596.12	Just Blowing Smoke
11	595.4	Barnesville Blues Brother	11	595.2	Wright On Q	11	596.11	Team Hold Your Horses BBQ
12	594.8	Off the Chain	12	594.8	Real South BBQ	12	596.1	Southern Hogs
13	594.2	Team Hold Your Horses BBQ	13	594.8	The BBQ Ninja	13	595.8	Shark Bite BBQ
14	594.2	Smokin the Good Stuff	14	593.9	Silver Hammer BBQ	14	595.8	Hootie Q
15	593.9	Shark Bite BBQ	15	593.9	Southern Hogs	15	594.2	Party Fowl
16	593.3	Fire in the Hole	16	593.6	Dawg Pit BBQ	16	593.9	Front Porch BBQ
17	593.1	Silver Hammer BBQ	17	592.1	Soggy Bottom Boys	17	593.9	Smokin the Good Stuff
18	591.5	The BBQ Ninja	18	591	Fire in the Hole	18	592.4	Carter Q
19	590.3	The Fat Boys of Tenneson Nissan	19	590.8	Fat Boys Cooking Team	19	591.6	Flint River Cookers
20	590.3	Wright On Q	20	590.2	We Want Que	20	590.9	Off the Chain
21	590.2	Real South BBQ	21	590.2	Smoke Stack Lightning	21	589.9	Wright On Q
22	589.9	Front Porch BBQ	22	589.6	Off the Chain	22	588	The Stiuation BBQ Team
23	586.7	Smoke Stack Lightning	23	589.3	Butts and Bones BBQ	23	586.3	Lang BBQ Smokers
24	586.4	The Stiuation BBQ Team	24	588	Barnesville Blues Brother	24	586	Barnesville Blues Brother
25	585.7	Dawg Pit BBQ	25	586.6	Shark Bite BBQ	25	583.4	Dawg Pit BBQ
26	585.1	Raging Smoke BBQ	26	586.3	Just Blowing Smoke	26	583.4	Hillbilly’s BBQ
27	582	Just Smokin ‘N’ Around	27	581.3	Kelvin’s BBQ	27	583	Fire in the Hole
28	581.3	Soggy Bottom Boys	28	581.2	Hillbilly’s BBQ	28	582.3	The BBQ Ninja
29	580.5	Pink Pork Porkers	29	580.5	Just Smokin ‘N’ Around	29	581.8	Silver Hammer BBQ
30	580	Carter Q	30	579.7	Front Porch BBQ	30	581.5	Fat Boys Cooking Team
31	578.4	Daddy-O’s BBQ	31	578.4	Bubba Grills	31	580.6	Mason Dixon
32	576.6	Mason Dixon	32	578.1	The Fat Boys of Tenneson Nissan	32	578.7	Smoke Stack Lightning
33	574.5	FireHouse Smokers	33	576.6	92/Assassin BBQ	33	578.2	EMC Engineering
34	571.4	Piggy Paulks	34	576.1	Mason Dixon	34	578	Tobesofkee Farm
35	570.8	Hillbilly’s BBQ	35	576	Raging Smoke BBQ	35	577.4	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ
36	569.6	Party Fowl	36	574.7	The Stiuation BBQ Team	36	576.6	We Want Que
37	568.5	EMC Engineering	37	573.9	Party Fowl	37	575.8	Piggy Paulks
38	566.6	Lang BBQ Smokers	38	573.5	Rooftop BBQ	38	575.4	Soggy Bottom Boys
39	564.6	Fat Boys Cooking Team	39	569.9	FireHouse Smokers	39	573.2	Butts and Bones BBQ
40	562.2	Tobesofkee Farm	40	568.9	Pink Pork Porkers	40	570.2	Kelvin’s BBQ
41	562	Kelvin’s BBQ	41	565.9	Tobesofkee Farm	41	563.9	Rooftop BBQ
42	558.7	Butts and Bones BBQ	42	563.2	Piggy Paulks	42	560.1	FireHouse Smokers
42	0	Rooftop BBQ	42	562.9	EMC Engineering	42	559.3	Pink Pork Porkers

	Reserve Scores	Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	Holy Smokes	599.4	600.0	598.8	1798.2
2	Rescue Smokers	598.5	598.5	599.1	1796.1
3	Hootie Q	600.0	595.2	595.8	1791.0
4	Flint River Cookers	599.1	600.0	591.6	1790.7
5	Team Hold Your Horses BBQ	594.2	599.1	596.1	1789.4
6	Southern Hogs	599.1	593.9	596.1	1789.1
7	Smokin the Good Stuff	594.2	595.8	593.9	1783.9
8	Just Blowing Smoke	600.0	586.3	596.1	1782.4
9	Real South BBQ	590.2	594.8	596.4	1781.4
10	Daddy-O’s BBQ	578.4	600.0	598.2	1776.6
11	92/Assassin BBQ	599.7	576.6	600.0	1776.3
12	Shark Bite BBQ	593.9	586.6	595.8	1776.3
13	Wright On Q	590.3	595.2	589.9	1775.4
14	Off the Chain	594.8	589.6	590.9	1775.3
15	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ	598.8	598.8	577.4	1775.0
16	Bubba Grills	596.1	578.4	598.8	1773.3
17	Carter Q	580.0	597.1	592.4	1769.5
18	Barnesville Blues Brother	595.4	588.0	586.0	1769.4
19	Silver Hammer BBQ	593.1	593.9	581.8	1768.8
20	The BBQ Ninja	591.5	594.8	582.3	1768.6
21	The Fat Boys of Tenneson Nissan	590.3	578.1	599.1	1767.5
22	Fire in the Hole	593.3	591.0	583.0	1767.3
23	Front Porch BBQ	589.9	579.7	593.9	1763.5
24	We Want Que	596.5	590.2	576.6	1763.3
25	Dawg Pit BBQ	585.7	593.6	583.4	1762.7
26	Just Smokin ‘N’ Around	582.0	580.5	599.4	1761.9
27	Raging Smoke BBQ	585.1	576.0	599.1	1760.2
28	Smoke Stack Lightning	586.7	590.2	578.7	1755.6
29	The Stiuation BBQ Team	586.4	574.7	588.0	1749.1
30	Lang BBQ Smokers	566.6	596.1	586.3	1749.0
31	Soggy Bottom Boys	581.3	592.1	575.4	1748.8
32	Party Fowl	569.6	573.9	594.2	1737.7
33	Fat Boys BBQ Cooking Team	564.6	590.8	581.5	1736.9
34	Hillbilly’s BBQ	570.8	581.2	583.4	1735.4
35	Mason Dixon	576.6	576.1	580.6	1733.3
36	Butts and Bones BBQ	558.7	589.3	573.2	1721.2
37	Kelvin’s BBQ	562.0	581.3	570.2	1713.5
38	Piggy Paulks	571.4	563.2	575.8	1710.4
39	EMC Engineering	568.5	562.9	578.2	1709.6
40	Pink Pork Porkers	580.5	568.9	559.3	1708.7
41	Tobesofkee Farm	562.2	565.9	578.0	1706.1
42	FireHouse Smokers	574.5	569.9	560.1	1704.5
43	Rooftop BBQ	0.0	573.5	563.9	1137.4

Brisket Ancillary

1	595.1	Rescue Smokers
2	591.8	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ
3	589.9	Wright On Q
4	588.2	Flint River Cookers
5	587.9	Kelvin’s BBQ
6	585	Team Hold Your Horses
7	583.4	Fat Boys BBQ Cooking Team
8	581.4	Bubba Grills
9	580.5	BBQ Ninja
10	569.8	Mason Dixon
11	564.3	Piggy Paulks