Back to Back Grands for 29 Barbeque

Back to Back Grands for 29 Barbeque

The Georgia Barbecue Association (GBA) plowed into the Durhamtown Off Road Park near Union Point for the Durhamtown Spring Jam & BBQ Cook-off.  While the slick red clay mud was a delight for the 4 Wheelers & Dirt Bikers, it presented some challenges to the Pitmasters.  The GBA cooks were up for the conditions & turned in some outstanding ‘Que  The competition was close as 16 teams vied for the final calls.  The competition was so tight that the GBA reps had to go to break a tie for the Grand Championship.

In the Finals, 29 Barbeque’s Pulled Pork box & Dobey Q’s Loin box both tallied a score of 597 from the final’s judges.  The GBA motto is “It’s All About the Taste” and the Taste criteria is the first level in the tiebreaker system.  29 Barbeque’s scored 0.04 higher in the Taste criteria than Dobey Q to win the Grand Championship.

 

Grand Champion -29 Barbeque

Grand Champion -29 Barbeque

Bubba Grills made finals in both Loin & Ribs and added a 10th place finish in Pulled Pork to tally the top cumulative score in the preliminary rounds and take home the Reserve Champion award.

Reserve Champion - Bubba Grills

Reserve Champion – Bubba Grills

 

First Place Loin - Dobey Q

First Place Loin – Dobey Q

 

 

Dobey Q’s 597 score in Loin topped the category by just 0.2 over Fiddler’s BBQ. Bubba Grills took 3rd place. 29 Barbeque edged LawDawg BBQ by 0.04 of a point for 4th place. Sixth place went to Main Street BBQ and 7th place went to Real South BBQ.   Southern Hogs, H & J Cooking Team & 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers rounded out the top 10.

 

 

29 Barbeque had the best Pulled Pork of the day with Main Street BBQ taking 2nd place & We Want Que taking 3rd place.  Smoke Shack BBQ grabbe 4th place; 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers grabbed 4th and H & J Cooking Team pulled down 6th place.  Real South BBQ once again captured 7th place with Master Basters capturing 8th place. Ninth place went to Dobey Q and 10th place went to Bubba Grills.

 

 

First Place Ribs - 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers

First Place Ribs – 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers

 

 

92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers got the last call in the Ribs category.  Smokin’ the Good Stuff was runner-up with Bubba Grills taking 3rd place. Smoke Shack BBQ got their second 4th place call of the day and Fiddlers BBQ got the call for 5th place. Dobey Q got their third call of the day for 6th place and H & J Coooking team also got a third call with a 7th place finish. In 8th place was Southern Hogs just 0.3 ahead of 29 Barbeque in 9th place. Tenth place went to We Want Que.

 

 

Durhamtown also hosted a GBA sanctioned Cooking for Fun division contest.  Cooking for Fun consists of Pulled Pork and Ribs.  It is one round of competition only with no finals round as in the GBA Pro division. Six teams competed in the Cooking For Fun Division.

 

Southern Accents took first place in Pulled Pork.  White Racing Team topped the Ribs category. Fine Azz Swine was the runner-up in both cateories and Screaming Eagle BBQ took 3rd place in both as well,

 

Cooking For Fun Pork - Southern Accent

Cooking For Fun Pork – Southern Accent

Coking For Fun - Ribs - White Racing

Coking For Fun – Ribs – White Racing

 

 

The GBA has three great contests on tap for April starting with Hawkinsville’s Smokin’ the Track followed by Bikes, Blues & BBQ in Douglas and Smokin’ Pork N Butts in Jackson.

Full Results  GBA Division:

LOIN   PULLED PORK   RIBS
1 597 Doby Q 1 597 29 Barbeque 1 596.4 92 Barbeque
2 596.8 Fiddlers BBQ 2 593.4 Main Street BBQ 2 594.7 Smokin the Good Stuff
3 587.2 Bubba Grills 3 591.2 We Want Que 3 590.9 Bubba Grills
4 588.5 29 Barbeque 4 588.5 Smoke Shack BBQ 4 588.2 Smoke Shack BBQ
5 588.1 Law Dawg BBQ 5 587.9 92 BBQ 5 587.5 Fiddlers BBQ
6 586.9 Main Street BBQ 6 587.8 H and J Cooking Team 6 585.5 Dobey Que
7 586.2 Real South 7 587.3 Real South 7 583.8 H and J Cooking Team
8 585.3 Southern Hogs 8 586.9 Master Basters 8 582.6 Southern Hogs
9 582.6 H and J Cooking Team 9 585.8 Dobey Que 9 582.3 29 Barbeque
10 576.8 92 BBQ 10 585.3 Bubba Grills 10 581.9 We Want Que
11 574.8 Old Henry’s BBQ 11 583.6 Fiddlers BBQ 11 580.4 Old Henry’s BBQ
12 574.3 Smoke Shack BBQ 12 583.4 Southern Hogs 12 579.6 Speed Power Pork
13 572.3 We Want Que 13 575.7 Law Dawg BBQ 13 573.3 Law Dawg BBQ
14 571.1 Master Basters 14 573.7 Speed Power Pork 14 564.5 Main Street BBQ
15 567.4 Smokin the Good Stuff 15 572.8 Old Henry’s BBQ 15 564.4 Master Basters
16 561.5 Speed Power Pork 16 568.2 Smokin the Good Stuff 16 563.8 Real South

 

 

 Reserve Scores Loin Pulled Ribs Total
1 Bubba Grills 591.5 585.3 595.1 1771.9
2 Fiddlers BBQ 594.8 583.6 587.5 1765.9
3 Dobey Que 592.1 585.8 585.5 1763.4
4 29 Barbeque 588.5 589.9 582.3 1760.7
5 92 BBQ 576.8 587.9 590.6 1755.3
6 H and J Cooking Team 582.6 587.8 583.8 1754.2
7 Southern Hogs 585.3 583.4 582.6 1751.3
8 Smoke Shack BBQ 574.3 588.5 588.2 1751
9 We Want Que 572.3 590.9 581.9 1745.1
10 Main Street BBQ 586.9 591.5 564.5 1742.9
11 Real South 586.2 587.3 563.8 1737.3
12 Law Dawg BBQ 588.1 575.7 573.3 1737.1
13 Old Henry’s BBQ 574.8 572.8 580.4 1728
14 Smokin the Good Stuff 567.4 568.2 590.8 1726.4
15 Master Basters 571.1 586.9 564.4 1722.4
16 Speed Power Pork 561.5 573.7 579.6 1714.8

 

Cooking For Fun Division

PULLED PORK   RIBS
1 589.6 Southern Accent 1 582.6 White Racing Team
2 582.3 Fine Azz Swine 2 580.9 Fine Azz Swine
3 580.6 Screaming Eagle BBQ 3 579.7 Screaming Eagle BBQ
4 573.7 Smokin Pipes 4 576 Southern Accent
5 0 White Racing Team 5 568.7 Smokin Pipes

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