Georgia Barbecue Association

Mar 05 2017

Holy Smokes Hits the Right Notes at Rhythm & Ribs

Tifton, GA — The competition was tough and tight at Rhythm & Ribs on a beautiful first weekend in March. It was so close that it came down to a tie for the Grand Championship. Gary & Dionn Lanton of Holy Smokes won the Grand Championship in a tie with …. Themselves. The team’s winning Loin score of 597.5 exactly the same as their winning Rib score. Lang BBQ Smokers, Darryl Strickland, won the Pulled Pork category and was just 0.6 of a point off the Grand Championship scores.

Matt & Donna Sapp of Southern Hogs claimed the Reserve Grand Championship by making finals in Loin along with a fourth place in Pulled Pork and 13^th place in Ribs.

Following Holy Smokes in Loin was Southern Hogs in 2^nd place & Flint River Cookers in 3^rd place. Lang BBQ Smokers paced the field in Pulled Pork followed by runner up Fire in the Hole and 3^rd place Vienna Volunteer Fire Dept. Holy Smokes topped the Rib category with local favorite 42 BBQ & Budmeisters BBQ Team taking 2^nd & 3^rd respectively.

The GBA sends a big Thank You to Tyon Spearman, the City of Tifton & a host of volunteers for their hospitality & putting on a great contest.

Full Results
1st, 2nd & 3rd place scores are final round scores. All others are preliminary round scores.

		LOIN			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	597.5	Holy Smokes	1	596.9	Lang BBQ Smokers	1	597.5	Holy Smokes
2	595	Southern Hogs	2	595	Fire in the Hole	2	593.6	Smokin 42 BBQ
3	592.5	Flint River Cookers	3	592.5	Vienna Volunteer Fire Depaertment	3	593.5	Budmeisters BBQ Team
4	598.2	Flying Pig	4	595.81	Southern Hogs	4	599.4	Bite My Butt BBQ
5	595.4	Budmeisters BBQ Team	5	595.8	Rescue Smokers	5	598.81	Flying Pig
6	594.9	Fire in the Hole	6	595.1	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team	6	598.8	Flint River Cooking Team
7	592.21	92 BBQ / Assassin Smokers	7	593.1	Hardwood Smoke	7	598.5	The Fat Boys of Tenneson Nissan
8	592.2	The Fat Boys of Tenneson Nissan	8	589.6	The Grillman BBQ Company	8	597.9	Real South BBQ
9	590.2	Vienna Volunteer Fire Department	9	588.5	Holy Smokes	9	595.2	Rib Ticklers
10	589.6	Wild Skips Smokers	10	587.3	Budmeisters BBQ Team	10	588.8	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team
11	587.8	Jack’s Old South	11	587.2	Hootie Q	11	588.1	The Grillman BBQ Company
12	587.5	Rescue Smokers	12	586.9	Wild Skips Smokers	12	587.6	Jack’s Old South
13	587.5	Lang BBQ Smokers	13	586.9	Kelvin’s BBQ	13	587.5	Southern Hogs
14	586.9	Hootie Q	14	586.6	Real South BBQ	14	586.9	92 BBQ / Assassin Smokers
15	586.2	Smokin 42 BBQ	15	585.4	Flint River Cookers	15	586.7	Rescue Smokers
16	586.1	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team	16	585.4	Flying Pig	16	586.7	Fire in the Hole
17	582.7	Smarr Cooking Crew	17	585.3	Smokin 42 BBQ	17	586.6	Just Smoke N Around BBQ
18	582.6	Just Smoke N Around BBQ	18	585.1	Jack’s Old South	18	585.3	Wild Skips Smokers
19	582.6	Real South BBQ	19	582.7	Bite My Butt BBQ	19	584.3	Lang BBQ Smokers
20	581.7	Swine Time Grilling Team	20	582.4	Smarr Cooking Crew	20	580.6	Hootie Q
21	580.3	Cool Hand Luke	21	581.1	Cool Hand Luke	21	579.3	Vienna Volunteer Fire Department
22	578.3	Kelvin’s BBQ	22	579.9	Rib Ticklers	22	577.3	Swine Time Grilling Team
23	573.8	Rib Ticklers	23	579.3	The Fat Boys of Tenneson Nissan	23	575.2	Kelvin’s BBQ
24	571.4	Bite My Butt BBQ	24	578.7	Flint River Cooking Team	24	572.6	Flint River Cookers
25	571.2	The Grillman BBQ Company	25	577.1	92 BBQ / Assassin Smokers	25	571.6	Hardwood Smoke
26	570.5	Smokestack Lightning	26	575.8	Swine Time Grilling Team	26	570.5	Smarr Cooking Crew
27	570.2	Flint River Cooking Team	27	574.1	Smokestack Lightning	27	569	Smokestack Lightning
28	561	Hardwood Smoke	28	572.7	Just Smoke N Around BBQ	28	562.9	Cool Hand Luke

	Reserve Grand Champion Scores	Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	Holy Smokes	599.4	588.5	599.7	1787.6
2	Southern Hogs	599.7	595.8	587.5	1783.0
3	Flying Pig	598.2	585.4	598.8	1782.4
4	Budmeisters BBQ Team	595.4	587.3	599.4	1782.1
5	Fire in the Hole	594.9	598.5	586.7	1780.1
6	Smokin 42 BBQ	586.2	585.3	600.0	1771.5
7	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team	586.1	595.1	588.8	1770.0
8	The Fat Boys of Tenneson Nissan	592.2	579.3	598.5	1770.0
9	Rescue Smokers	587.5	595.8	586.7	1770.0
10	Lang BBQ Smokers	587.5	596.4	584.3	1768.2
11	Real South BBQ	582.6	586.6	597.9	1767.1
12	Vienna Volunteer Fire Department	590.2	596.1	579.3	1765.6
13	Wild Skips Smokers	589.6	586.9	585.3	1761.8
14	Jack’s Old South	587.8	585.1	587.6	1760.5
15	Flint River Cookers	599.4	585.4	572.6	1757.4
16	92 BBQ / Assassin Smokers	592.2	577.1	586.9	1756.2
17	Hootie Q	586.9	587.2	580.6	1754.7
18	Bite My Butt BBQ	571.4	582.7	599.4	1753.5
19	Rib Ticklers	573.8	579.9	595.2	1748.9
20	The Grillman BBQ Company	571.2	589.6	588.1	1748.9
21	Flint River Cooking Team	570.2	578.7	598.8	1747.7
22	Just Smoke N Around BBQ	582.6	572.7	586.6	1741.9
23	Kelvin’s BBQ	578.3	586.9	575.2	1740.4
24	Smarr Cooking Crew	582.7	582.4	570.5	1735.6
25	Swine Time Grilling Team	581.7	575.8	577.3	1734.8
26	Hardwood Smoke	561.0	593.1	571.6	1725.7
27	Cool Hand Luke	580.3	581.1	562.9	1724.3
28	Smokestack Lightning	570.5	574.1	569.0	1713.6

Feb 26 2017

Smokestack Lightning Strikes for Grand Championship at Dilly Dally in Dooly

The Georgia Barbecue Association (GBA) along with the Dooly Co Chamber of Commerce combined to bring a second professional BBQ competition to the Big Pig Jig site in Vienna. With 54 teams, Dilly Dally in Dooly became the second largest contest field in GBA history. The contest drew teams from both GA & FL as well as Poor House Bar-B-Q, pitmaster Dan Jameson, who made a 20 hour drive down to south GA from Caanan, New Hampshire.

Grand Champion – Smokestack Lightning

Getting the last call of the day for Grand Champion was Steve Holmes and Smokestack Lightning. The team topped the finals rounds with a score of 597.8 in Loin. It was the team’s first Grand Championship. Taking the Reserve Grand Championship by making finals in Ribs along with 4^th place in Loin & 8^th place in Pulled Pork was Team Pork Rindz led by pitmaster Scott McCormick.

Reserve Champion – Team Pork Rindz

The Loin competition was especially tough as all three finals teams recorded a perfect 600 score in the preliminary rounds. Team Pork Rindz missed the finals round by just 0.3 of a point with a 599.7. Following Smokestack Lightning in Loin was Reallicious Q in second place and Hootie Q in third.

Tim Coleman & Real South BBQ won the Pulled Pork category followed by Budmeisters as runner-up. Hootie Q edged H and J Cooking Team on a tiebreaker for third in preliminaries to qualify for finals and finished 3^rd in the final round.

Holy Smokes, Gary & Dionn Lanton, took top honors in Ribs. Bite My Butt BBQ scored a perfect 600 in the preliminary round and finished second in the finals. Team Pork Rindz rounded out the top three.

The contest held a Brisket ancillary competition. Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team, Jack & Sandi Falin, walked for the first place call. Holy Smokes took 2^nd place with Reallicious Q taking third.

The GBA thanks the staff of organizers & volunteers for Dilly Dally in Dooly on putting on a very successful first year event. We look forward to growing it bigger & better in 2018.

Full Results
note: 1st, 2nd & 3rd place scores are from final rounds. all other scores from preliminary rounds

		LOIN			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	597.8	Smokestack Lightning	1	597.5	Real South BBQ	1	596.8	Holy Smoke
2	595.3	Reallicious Q	2	595.8	Budmeisters BBQ	2	594.8	Bite My Butt BBQ
3	592.1	Hootie Q	3	590.8	Hootie Q	3	593.4	Team Pork Rindz
4	599.7	Team Pork Rindz	4	599.1	H and J Cooking Team	4	596.1	Heavenly Hawgs
5	599.4	Rub Shakers Que	5	598.81	Raging Smoke BBQ	5	595.8	Rub Shakers Que
6	599.1	EZQ	6	598.8	We Want Que	6	595.11	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team
7	598.8	Flying Pig Bar-B-Que	7	595.52	Naked Daves	7	595.1	Lang Smokers
8	596.1	Heavenly Hawgs	8	595.51	Team Pork Rindz	8	594.2	Fat Daddys Stew & Que
9	595.5	Holy Smokes	9	595.5	Southern Hogs	9	592.5	Real South BBQ
10	595.4	Southern Hogs	10	594.9	Flying Pig Bar-B-Que	10	591.8	Bubba Grills
11	594.5	Smokin AJ’s	11	594.8	The Grillman BBQ Company	11	591.3	We Want Que
12	592.2	Bite My Butt BBQ	12	594.8	Rescue Smokers	12	591.2	92 Assassin BBQ
13	591.5	Vienna Volunteer Fire Dept.	13	593.6	B’s BBQ	13	591.2	Southern Hogs
14	591.5	Budmeisters BBQ	14	591.6	Bite My Butt BBQ	14	590.8	Rick and Anniebell’s BBQ and Crew
15	590.6	Bubba Grills	15	591.2	Smokin AJ’s	15	590	Smarr Cooking Crew
16	590.2	Shark Bite BBQ	16	591.2	Bubba Grills	16	590	Papa’s Cookers
17	589.9	Rescue Smokers	17	590.9	Heavenly Hawgs	17	589.5	Vienna Volunteer Fire Dept.
18	587.6	Real South BBQ	18	590.3	92 Assassin BBQ	18	589.3	Flint River Cookers
19	586.2	Fletcher’s Finest	19	590.2	Fletcher’s Finest	19	589	Reallicious Q
20	586.2	Pink Pork Pokers	20	589	The Fatboy’s of Tenneson Nissan	20	588.3	Flying Pig Bar-B-Que
21	584.4	Naked Daves	21	588.3	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team	21	588.1	H and J Cooking Team
22	584.3	Smarr Cooking Crew	22	588.2	Fire in the Hole	22	587.9	Georgia Bullhawgs
23	584.3	Hold Your Horses BBQ	23	587.5	Wild Skips Smokers	23	587.9	Hootie Q
24	584	Fat Daddys Stew & Que	24	586.7	Big Jon’s BBQ	24	587.9	Budmeisters BBQ
25	583.3	Poor House Bar-B-Que	25	586.6	EZQ	25	587.5	Big Jon’s BBQ
26	583	Just Smoken Around BBQ	26	584.6	Pink Pork Pokers	26	586.6	Fletcher’s Finest
27	582.6	Our Gang	27	583.3	Poor House Bar-B-Que	27	586.3	Hold Your Horses BBQ
28	582.6	Georgia Bullhawgs	28	583	Hold Your Horses BBQ	28	585.9	Hole in the Wall
29	581.2	B’s BBQ	29	583	Holy Smokes	29	584.9	The Fatboy’s of Tenneson Nissan
30	581	Fire in the Hole	30	582.4	Shark Bite BBQ	30	584.6	Fire in the Hole
31	580.8	Wild Skips Smokers	31	582.1	Bite Back Competition BBQ Team, LLC	31	584	Rescue Smokers
32	580.2	92 Assassin BBQ	32	581.7	Our Gang	32	583	B’s BBQ
33	580	We Want Que	33	581.6	Lang Smokers	33	582	Wild Skips Smokers
34	579.1	Lang Smokers	34	579.8	Smokestack Lightning	34	581.9	Poor House Bar-B-Que
35	577.1	Rick and Anniebell’s BBQ and Crew	35	579.6	Smarr Cooking Crew	35	579.7	Shark Bite BBQ
36	575.1	Raging Smoke BBQ	36	579.3	Vienna Volunteer Fire Dept.	36	579.1	Smokin AJ’s
37	574.8	The Grillman BBQ Company	37	579.2	Pig Dynasty	37	578.7	Raging Smoke BBQ
38	573.8	Big Jon’s BBQ	38	577.5	Springy’s Backyard Burners	38	578.5	Just Smoken Around BBQ
39	571.7	Pig Dynasty	39	576.6	Just Smoken Around BBQ	39	578.2	Our Gang
40	570.5	The Game Changers	40	576.2	Rub Shakers Que	40	577.7	Pig Dynasty
41	570.2	Nice Rack	41	575.9	Hole in the Wall	41	577.5	The Grillman BBQ Company
42	570.2	Bite Back Competition BBQ Team, LLC	42	574.5	Fat Daddys Stew & Que	42	577	EZQ
42	568.9	H and J Cooking Team	42	573.6	Time Out BBQ	42	576.9	The Game Changers
44	567.7	Flint River Cookers	44	573.1	Nice Rack	44	576	Naked Daves
45	566.6	For Get Me Not BBQ	45	570.3	Reallicious Q	45	568.4	Pink Pork Pokers
46	566.2	Springy’s Backyard Burners	46	570.3	Rick and Anniebell’s BBQ and Crew	46	568.3	Smokestack Lightning
47	562.8	Pogo’s Porkers	47	569.2	Flint River Cookers	47	567.2	Nice Rack
48	561	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team	48	569.1	Pogo’s Porkers	48	566.6	For Get Me Not BBQ
49	560.4	Dixie Davis Cooks	49	569	Papa’s Cookers	49	566.5	Pogo’s Porkers
50	558	Time Out BBQ	50	568.6	The Game Changers	50	566.1	Circle C Cookers
51	557.4	The Fatboy’s of Tenneson Nissan	51	568.2	Dixie Davis Cooks	51	564.6	Bite Back Competition BBQ Team, LLC
52	555.7	Hole in the Wall	52	568.1	For Get Me Not BBQ	52	561.2	Dixie Davis Cooks
53	0	Papa’s Cookers	53	557.5	Georgia Bullhawgs	53	555.8	Time Out BBQ
54	0	Circle C Cookers	54	545.2	Circle C Cookers	54	0	Springy’s Backyard Burners

Reserve Grand Champions Scores

		Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	Team Pork Rindz	599.7	595.5	599.1	1794.3
2	Hootie Q	600.0	599.1	587.9	1787.0
3	Bite My Butt BBQ	592.2	591.6	600.0	1783.8
4	Heavenly Hawgs	596.1	590.9	596.1	1783.1
5	Southern Hogs	595.4	595.5	591.2	1782.1
6	Flying Pig Bar-B-Que	598.8	594.9	588.3	1782.0
7	Real South BBQ	587.6	599.7	592.5	1779.8
8	Budmeisters BBQ	591.5	599.4	587.9	1778.8
9	Holy Smokes	595.5	583.0	599.7	1778.2
10	Bubba Grills	590.6	591.2	591.8	1773.6
11	Rub Shakers Que	599.4	576.2	595.8	1771.4
12	We Want Que	580.0	598.8	591.3	1770.1
13	Rescue Smokers	589.9	594.8	584.0	1768.7
14	Smokin AJ’s	594.5	591.2	579.1	1764.8
15	Fletcher’s Finest	586.2	590.2	586.6	1763.0
16	EZQ	599.1	586.6	577.0	1762.7
17	92 Assassin BBQ	580.2	590.3	591.2	1761.7
18	Vienna Volunteer Fire Dept.	591.5	579.3	589.5	1760.3
19	Reallicious Q	600.0	570.3	589.0	1759.3
20	B’s BBQ	581.2	593.6	583.0	1757.8
21	H and J Cooking Team	568.9	599.1	588.1	1756.1
22	Naked Daves	584.4	595.5	576.0	1755.9
23	Lang Smokers	579.1	581.6	595.1	1755.8
24	Smarr Cooking Crew	584.3	579.6	590.0	1753.9
25	Fire in the Hole	581.0	588.2	584.6	1753.8
26	Hold Your Horses BBQ	584.3	583.0	586.3	1753.6
27	Fat Daddys Stew & Que	584.0	574.5	594.2	1752.7
28	Raging Smoke BBQ	575.1	598.8	578.7	1752.6
29	Shark Bite BBQ	590.2	582.4	579.7	1752.3
30	Wild Skips Smokers	580.8	587.5	582.0	1750.3
31	Poor House Bar-B-Que	583.3	583.3	581.9	1748.5
32	Smokestack Lightning	600.0	579.8	568.3	1748.1
33	Big Jon’s BBQ	573.8	586.7	587.5	1748.0
34	The Grillman BBQ Company	574.8	594.8	577.5	1747.1
35	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team	561.0	588.3	595.1	1744.4
36	Our Gang	582.6	581.7	578.2	1742.5
37	Pink Pork Pokers	586.2	584.6	568.4	1739.2
38	Rick and Anniebell’s BBQ and Crew	577.1	570.3	590.8	1738.2
39	Just Smoken Around BBQ	583.0	576.6	578.5	1738.1
40	The Fatboy’s of Tenneson Nissan	557.4	589.0	584.9	1731.3
41	Pig Dynasty	571.7	579.2	577.7	1728.6
42	Georgia Bullhawgs	582.6	557.5	587.9	1728.0
43	Flint River Cookers	567.7	569.2	589.3	1726.2
44	Hole in the Wall	555.7	575.9	585.9	1717.5
45	Bite Back Competition BBQ Team, LLC	570.2	582.1	564.6	1716.9
46	The Game Changers	570.5	568.6	576.9	1716.0
47	Nice Rack	570.2	573.1	567.2	1710.5
48	For Get Me Not BBQ	566.6	568.1	566.6	1701.3
49	Pogo’s Porkers	562.8	569.1	566.5	1698.4
50	Dixie Davis Cooks	560.4	568.2	561.2	1689.8
51	Time Out BBQ	558.0	573.6	555.8	1687.4
52	Papa’s Cookers	0.0	569.0	590.0	1159.0
53	Springy’s Backyard Burners	566.2	577.5	0.0	1143.7
54	Circle C Cookers	0.0	545.2	566.1	1111.3

Brisket Ancillary

		Brisket
1	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team	598.5
2	Holy Smokes	596.4
3	Reallicious Q	596.1
4	Bite My Butt BBQ	592.8
5	HYH BBQ	591.2
6	Team Pork Rindz	591.1
7	Hold Your Horses BBQ	590.8
8	Smarr Cooking Crew	589.7
9	Budmeisters BBQ	587.8
10	B’s BBQ	587.6
11	Raging Smoke BBQ	586.9
12	Smokin AJ’s	586.3
13	Vienna Volunteer Fire Dept.	584.0
14	Bubba Grills	582.0
15	Hootie Q	581.8
16	H and J Cooking Team	581.7
17	Flying Pig Bar-B-Que	580.6
18	Bite Back Competition BBQ Team, LLC	579.7
19	Fat Daddy’s Stew & Que	579.7
20	Poor House BBQ	578.8
21	Pig Dynasty	576.3
22	Flint River Cookers	575.4
23	Pogo’s Porkers	571.2
24	Dixie Davis Cooks	567.8
25	Smokn’ 17	563.7
26	Just Smokin Around	560.5

Dec 04 2016

Real South BBQ Takes Grand over Tough Field at Moultrie Moose Lodge BBQ Cook-Off

Grand Champions – Real South BBQ

Moultrie, Dec 3,2016: Twenty two of the top GBA teams, including the top 5 in the Team of the Year chase. gathered at the Moose Lodge for the last contest of the 2016 calendar year. It was a tight contest as only 0.5 of a point decided the Grand Championship and less than a point separated the top two teams for the Reserve Grand Championship.

Reserve Champion – Rescue Smokers

First Place Pulled Pork – Fat Boys of Tenneson Nissan

Tim Coleman & team Real South BBQ had the top entry in the finals rounds with Ribs to win the Grand Championship. Robby Royal continued his hot streak on the GBA circuit by winning the Reserve Grand Championship.

600 Score – Just Blowing Smoke

Rescue Smokers & Just Blowing Smoke finished 1-2 in the Loin final round after both recorded a perfect 600 score in the preliminary round. Smokin’ AJs took 3rd place. Fat Boys of Tenneson Nissan, Pitmaster Randy Meadows, took top honors in Pulled Pork. Holy Smokes took 2nd with Southern Hogs taking 3rd place. The Grand Championship Ribs of Real South BBQ won the category. Smokin’ AJs was the runner-up and Southern Hogs again claimed 3rd place.

In the Cooking for Fun contest; Nuts & Butts BBQ won both Chicken & Pulled Pork while Big Butts BBQ won Ribs.

Nuts & Butts BBQ

Big Butts BBQ

The GBA will take a break for the holidays before staring off 2017 on Feb 24-25 in Vienna for Dilly Dally in Dooley. The GBA salutes the Moultrie Moose Lodge for their hospitality and hosting another great contest.

		LOIN			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	595.6	Rescue Smokers	1	597.1	Fat Boys of Tenneson Nissan	1	597.6	Real South BBQ
2	595.3	Just Blowing Smoke	2	596.5	Holy Smokes	2	594.3	Smokin-AJ’s
3	593.1	Smokin-AJ’s	3	590.7	Southern Hogs	3	592.3	Southern Hogs
4	594.5	Sun Set Smokers	4	598.81	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ	4	594.6	Just Blowing Smoke
5	592.5	Hold Your Horses BBQ	5	598.8	Rescue Smokers	5	592.2	Holy Smokes
6	592.2	Southern Hogs	6	593.3	Vienna Vol. Fire Department	6	591.5	Hootie Q
7	589.6	Vienna Vol. Fire Department	7	590.9	Hootie Q	7	589.9	Rescue Smokers
8	587.51	92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers	8	590.6	Real South BBQ	8	589.5	92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers
9	587.5	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ	9	587.3	92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers	9	588	Rib Ticklers
10	585.8	Holy Smokes	10	586	Double D Cook Team	10	585.6	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ
11	584.7	Real South BBQ	11	585.3	Raging Smoke BBQ	11	583.3	Sun Set Smokers
12	580.8	QueNut BBQ	12	584.7	Just Blowing Smoke	12	580.8	Hold Your Horses BBQ
13	578.4	Flyin Pig Bar-B-Que	13	583.4	Flyin Pig Bar-B-Que	13	579.7	Fire In The Hole
14	575.8	Raging Smoke BBQ	14	582.3	Rib Ticklers	14	579.7	Raging Smoke BBQ
15	574.4	Colquitt Cookers	15	580.5	Colquitt Cookers	15	579.7	Fat Boys of Tenneson Nissan
16	573.8	Statesboro Blues	16	580.4	Hold Your Horses BBQ	16	579.4	QueNut BBQ
17	571.8	Hootie Q	17	580.1	Fire In The Hole	17	579.3	Forget Me Not BBQ
18	571.4	Forget Me Not BBQ	18	579.4	Statesboro Blues	18	578.4	Flyin Pig Bar-B-Que
19	571.2	Fire In The Hole	19	577.3	Sun Set Smokers	19	576.5	Colquitt Cookers
20	562	Double D Cook Team	20	577.2	QueNut BBQ	20	575.4	Double D Cook Team
21	0	Rib Ticklers	21	574.6	Forget Me Not BBQ	21	570.9	Vienna Vol. Fire Department
22	0	Fat Boys of Tenneson Nissan	22	571.6	Smokin-AJ’s	22	570.9	Statesboro Blues

	Reserve Champion	Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	Rescue Smokers	600.0	598.8	589.9	1788.7
2	Southern Hogs	592.2	599.7	594.9	1786.8
3	Just Blowing Smoke	600.0	584.7	594.6	1779.3
4	Holy Smokes	585.8	599.4	592.2	1777.4
5	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ	587.5	598.8	585.6	1771.9
6	Real South BBQ	584.7	590.6	594.9	1770.2
7	92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers	587.5	587.3	589.5	1764.3
8	Smokin-AJ’s	596.4	571.6	596.1	1764.1
9	Sun Set Smokers	594.5	577.3	583.3	1755.1
10	Hootie Q	571.8	590.9	591.5	1754.2
11	Vienna Vol. Fire Department	589.6	593.3	570.9	1753.8
12	Hold Your Horses BBQ	592.5	580.4	580.8	1753.7
13	Raging Smoke BBQ	575.8	585.3	579.7	1740.8
14	Flyin Pig Bar-B-Que	578.4	583.4	578.4	1740.2
15	QueNut BBQ	580.8	577.2	579.4	1737.4
16	Colquitt Cookers	574.4	580.5	576.5	1731.4
17	Fire In The Hole	571.2	580.1	579.7	1731.0
18	Forget Me Not BBQ	571.4	574.6	579.3	1725.3
19	Statesboro Blues	573.8	579.4	570.9	1724.1
20	Double D Cook Team	562.0	586.0	575.4	1723.4
21	Fat Boys of Tenneson Nissan	0.0	599.4	579.7	1179.1
22	Rib Ticklers	0.0	582.3	588.0	1170.3

Cooking for Fun Results:

		Chicken			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	600	Nuts & Butts BBQ	1	585.1	Nuts & Butts BBQ	1	600	Big Butts BBQ
2	591.8	Big Butts BBQ	2	577.8	Big Butts BBQ	2	594.8	Nuts & Butts BBQ
3	0	Big Dawgs Sic’em & Smoke’em	3	574.5	Big Dawgs Sic’em & Smoke’em	3	580.6	Big Dawgs Sic’em & Smoke’em

Nov 13 2016

Smokin’ the Good Stuff Wins With Loin at Smokin’ Pork N Butts

Grand Chammpion – Smokin the Good Stuff

It was a tough field of 23 teams assembled in Jackson for the new November edition of Smokin’ Pork N Butts. At the end, it was Gary Godfrey and Smokin’ the Good Stuff scoring a 599.4 out of a possible 600 in Loin Finals to claim the Grand Championship.

Reserve Champion – QueNut

QueNut, Pitmaster Alvin Meyer, made finals in Loin & Ribs alon with 4th place call in Pulled Pork won the Reserve Grand Champion award.

600 Loin Score – We Want Que

1st Place Pulled Pork – Rescue Smokers

Brisket Winner – 4K BBQ

Smokin’ the Good Stuff and We Want Que both scored perfect 600 scores in the Loin preliminary round. It was Smokin’ the Good Stuff taking first in finals over We Want Que. QueNut took 3rd place. Rescue Smokers took top honors in Pulled Pork. Southern Hogs grabbed 2nd place with Smokin’ the Good Stuff in 3rd place. QueNut won the Ribs category. Southern Hogs was again the runner up. Hold Your Horses walked in the 3rd place. In the Brisket ancillary, 4K BBQ won the winner take all contest with a perfect 600 score.

The teams all enjoyed to move to fall from the traditional, rain filled spring dates. Hats off to Wayne & Connie Rosser for another outstanding contest.

Full Results:

		LOIN			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	599.6	Smokin The Good Stuff	1	597.5	Rescue Smokers	1	597.8	Quenut
2	593.6	We Want Que	2	595.4	Southern Hogs	2	596.7	Southern Hogs
3	591	Quenut	3	591.6	Smokin The Good Stuff	3	589.1	Hold Your Horses BBQ
4	599.4	92 BBQ	4	599.1	Quenut	4	598.2	Hootie Q
5	599.1	Rescue Smokers	5	594.5	Off The Chain	5	596.4	Captain Jacks Freedom BBQ
6	598.8	Off The Chain	6	594.2	Just Smoke”N” Around	6	595.2	Flint River Cook Team
7	597.9	Que Shack	7	591.5	Hootie Q	7	594.8	Off The Chain
8	594.2	Just Blowin Smoke	8	590.81	Just Blowin Smoke	8	594.6	92 BBQ
9	593.3	Hootie Q	9	590.8	Kelvin’s BBQ	9	594.2	Just Blowin Smoke
10	592.4	4K’s BBQ	10	590.6	The BBQ Ninja	10	592.2	Kelvin’s BBQ
11	587.2	Fire in The Hole	11	589.9	Rub Shakers Que	11	590.9	Smokin The Good Stuff
12	586.5	Rub Shakers Que	12	589.9	92 BBQ	12	590.6	Que Shack
13	583.5	The BBQ Ninja	13	589.6	Atlanta Butt Society	13	589.4	Smokestack Lightning
14	583.2	Atlanta Butt Society	14	588	We Want Que	14	588.4	Fire in The Hole
15	582.6	Hold Your Horses BBQ	15	586.7	Smokestack Lightning	15	586.9	Rescue Smokers
16	582.1	Southern Hogs	16	586.4	Hold Your Horses BBQ	16	584.4	The BBQ Ninja
17	581.9	Kelvin’s BBQ	17	585.9	Flint River Cook Team	17	581.8	Rub Shakers Que
18	580	Shark Bite	18	585.6	Captain Jacks Freedom BBQ	18	580.6	4K’s BBQ
19	576.3	Captain Jacks Freedom BBQ	19	578.8	4K’s BBQ	19	580	Atlanta Butt Society
20	575.4	Flint River Cook Team	20	576.1	Old Henry’s BBQ	20	578.1	Shark Bite
21	571.5	Old Henry’s BBQ	21	574.4	Fire in The Hole	21	575.4	Old Henry’s BBQ
22	567.5	Just Smoke”N” Around	22	573.1	Que Shack	22	575	We Want Que
23	560.4	Smokestack Lightning	23	551.4	Shark Bite	23	570.5	Just Smoke”N” Around

	Reserve Scores	Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	Quenut	599.7	599.1	599.4	1798.2
2	Smokin The Good Stuff	600.0	599.4	590.9	1790.3
3	Off The Chain	598.8	594.5	594.8	1788.1
4	Rescue Smokers	599.1	599.4	586.9	1785.4
5	92 BBQ	599.4	589.9	594.6	1783.9
6	Hootie Q	593.3	591.5	598.2	1783.0
7	Southern Hogs	582.1	599.4	599.1	1780.6
8	Just Blowin Smoke	594.2	590.8	594.2	1779.2
9	Hold Your Horses BBQ	582.6	586.4	598.5	1767.5
10	Kelvin’s BBQ	581.9	590.8	592.2	1764.9
11	We Want Que	600.0	588.0	575.0	1763.0
12	Que Shack	597.9	573.1	590.6	1761.6
13	The BBQ Ninja	583.5	590.6	584.4	1758.5
14	Captain Jacks Freedom BBQ	576.3	585.6	596.4	1758.3
15	Rub Shakers Que	586.5	589.9	581.8	1758.2
16	Flint River Cook Team	575.4	585.9	595.2	1756.5
17	Atlanta Butt Society	583.2	589.6	580.0	1752.8
18	4K’s BBQ	592.4	578.8	580.6	1751.8
19	Fire in The Hole	587.2	574.4	588.4	1750.0
20	Smokestack Lightning	560.4	586.7	589.4	1736.5
21	Just Smoke”N” Around	567.5	594.2	570.5	1732.2
22	Old Henry’s BBQ	571.5	576.1	575.4	1723.0
23	Shark Bite	580.0	551.4	578.1	1709.5

Nov 03 2016

Rescue Smokers Defies the Odds to Take Grand at Wiggle & Twist

Grand Champion – Rescue Smokers

When the preliminary rounds ended at Johnson County Co Wiggle & Twist, the odds were stacked against Robby Royal of Rescue Smokers. Newly crowned GBA State Champion Gary Lanton & Holy Smokes made finals in all three categories. Top 5 teams, Southern Hogs & Real South BBQ had made finals in 2 categories. Another top contender, Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team had finaled in Ribs. Royal made finals in Loin which, oh by the way, Holy Smokes has just scored perfect 600 in the preliminaries. Robby put the Rescue Style mojo on his finals entry and walked last as Grand Champion.

Reserve Grand Champion – Holy Smokes

Holy Smokes recorded scores of 600, 599.1 & 599.4 in the preliminary rounds for a cumulative total of 1798.5 (out of a possible 1800) to win the Reserve Grand Champion award.

Soouthern Hogs

Real South BBQ

Captain Jacks Freedom BBQ Team

Following Rescue Smokers in Loin were Holy Smokes in second & Southern Hogs in third place. Holy Smokes won Pulled Pork with Real South BBQ as runner up. Southern Hogs again took 3rd place. It was Holy Smokes got their second category win in Ribs. Real South BBQ walked again in 2nd place and Captain Jacks Freedom BBQ Team rounded out the top three.

The GBA salutes Ms Betty Williamson, the Johnson Co Chamber of Commerce and all the may voluteers and sponsors for a job well done.

		LOIN			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	598.3	RESCUE SMOKERS	1	597.1	HOLY SMOKES	1	596.5	HOLY SMOKES
2	596.3	HOLY SMOKES	2	596	REAL SOUTH	2	594.7	REAL SOUTH
3	589.1	SOUTHERN HOGS	3	590.7	SOUTHERN HOGS	3	593.5	CAPTAIN JACKS FREEDOM BBQ
4	594.2	92 BBQ ASSASSIN SMOKERS	4	592.2	92 BBQ ASSASSIN SMOKERS	4	594.9	RAGING SMOKE BBQ
5	592.2	THE GRILLMAN BBQ	5	590.5	HOOTIE Q	5	594.8	92 BBQ ASSASSIN SMOKERS
6	590.5	BIG JON’S BBQ	6	589.7	RESCUE SMOKERS	6	589.6	BIG JON’S BBQ
7	585.9	OLD HENRYS BBQ	7	588.4	BIG JON’S BBQ	7	588.5	OLD HENRYS BBQ
8	584.9	HOOTIE Q	8	586.5	CAPTAIN JACKS FREEDOM BBQ TEAM	8	584.6	RESCUE SMOKERS
9	582.3	REAL SOUTH BBQ	9	586.4	THE GRILLMAN BBQ	9	581.7	THE GRILLMAN BBQ
10	577.5	JUST SMOKE N AROUND	10	578.7	OLD HENRYS BBQ	10	580.3	SOUTHERN HOGS
11	572.1	CAPTAIN JACKS FREEDOM BBQ TEAM	11	576	RAGING SMOKE BBQ	11	579.7	HOOTIE Q
12	565.4	RAGING SMOKE BBQ	12	571.4	JUST SMOKE N AROUND	12	569.6	JUST SMOKE N AROUND
13	557.9	TANNER TIMBER HARVESTING SMOKEHOUSE CREW	13	571.1	TANNER TIMBER HARVESTING SMOKEHOUSE CREW	13	567.2	TANNER TIMBER HARVESTING SMOKEHOUSE CREW

	Reserve Champion Scores	Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	HOLY SMOKES	600.0	599.1	599.4	1798.5
2	92 BBQ ASSASSIN SMOKERS	594.2	592.2	594.8	1781.2
3	REAL SOUTH BBQ	582.3	595.1	599.7	1777.1
4	SOUTHERN HOGS	594.5	599.4	580.3	1774.2
5	RESCUE SMOKERS	594.8	589.7	584.6	1769.1
6	BIG JON’S BBQ	590.5	588.4	589.6	1768.5
7	THE GRILLMAN BBQ	592.2	586.4	581.7	1760.3
8	HOOTIE Q	584.9	590.5	579.7	1755.1
9	CAPTAIN JACKS FREEDOM BBQ TEAM	572.1	586.5	596.4	1755.0
10	OLD HENRYS BBQ	585.9	578.7	588.5	1753.1
11	RAGING SMOKE BBQ	565.4	576.0	594.9	1736.3
12	JUST SMOKE N AROUND	577.5	571.4	569.6	1718.5
13	TANNER TIMBER HARVESTING SMOKEHOUSE CREW	557.9	571.1	567.2	1696.2