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Dec 06 2015

Barbecue Crew Defends Title in Hometown

The 3rd Annual Moultrie Moose Lodge #1158 BBQ Cook-off is the last event on the 2015 calendar year for the Georgia Barbecue Association (GBA). But before taking a break for the holidays, 11 of the top 20 teams in the GBA Team of the Year standings turned for the competition. The members of the Moose Lodge always roll out the red carpet for the GBA teams & judges. The Friday nite steak dinners that the Lodge serves have everyone looking forward to this contest each year.

Despite all the GBA heavy hitters best efforts, Moultrie’s own Foy Whatley of Barbecue Crew won the Grand Championship for the second year in a row. Whatley made finals in both Pulled Pork & Ribs, but it was his Pulled Pork box that brought home top honors. That Grand Championship box must have been really special as the panel of finals judges commented that all 3 of the Pulled Pork final entries were among the best they had sampled all year.

Brian Bond of Daddy O’s BBQ made finals in both Pulled Pork and Ribs plus added an 8th place finish in Loin to accumulate the highest cumulative score in the preliminary rounds. As a result, Daddy O’s BBQ took home the Reserve Grand Championship.

Just Blowing Smoke won the Loin category with Real South BBQ as the runner-up. Simply Q finished in 3rd place. Fiddler’s BBQ got the call for 4th place with H & J Cooking Team getting called for 5th place. Sixth place went to Southern Hogs; followed by Smokin’ 42 BBQ in 7th place & Daddy O’s BBQ in 8th place. Sunset Smokers, also from Moultrie, grabbed 9th place and Johnson Boys BBQ taking 10th place.

Following Barbecue winning Pulled Pork was Southern Hogs in 2nd place with Daddy O’s BBQ in 3rd place. Real South BBQ got their second call in 4th place and CaJenn Smoking Que walked in 5th place. Rescue Smokers came in 6th place just 0.4 ahead of Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team in 7th place. Eighth place was also close as Raging Smoke edged H & J Cooking Team by just 0.2 of a point. Smokin’ 42 BBQ rounded out the top 10.

Daddy O’s BBQ took top honors in Ribs. Barbecue Crew took 2nd place. In the preliminary round Ribs, Barbecue Crew scored a perfect 600. Smokin’ 42 BBQ. Rescue Smokers came in 4th place just ahead of Just Blowing Smoke in 5th. Sixth place went to Southern Hogs and 7th place went to Rub Shakers Que. Eighth thru 10th places went to Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team, Real South BBQ and H & J Cooking Team respectively.

The contest also featured a backyard competition. Under Construction BBQ took 1st place in Chicken. Wicked Lickin BBQ Crew got the first place calls in both Pulled Pork & Ribs.

The GBA thanks all the Moose Lodge members for their great hospitality and we are looking forward to returning the Moultrie in 2016. Meanwhile, the GBA will pause the 2015-2016 season for the holidays.

The GBA will hold a judge training class on Jan 23, 2016 in Fort Gaines. Fee for the class is $35. You must be a member of the GBA to take the class. Registation is now open on the GBA website — www.bbqga.com The next contest will be the Jekyll Island BBQ Beach Bash in February. Visit the website for more details.

Full Standings: 1st, 2nd & 3rd places are final round scores. All other scores are preliminary round scores.

		LOIN			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	598	Just Blowing Smoke	1	598.9	Barbecue Crew	1	598.3	Daddy-O’s BBQ
2	595.6	Real South BBQ	2	593.6	Southern Hogs	2	595.9	Barbecue Crew
3	590.4	Simply “Q”	3	591.4	Daddy-O’s BBQ	3	588.6	Smokin 42 BBQ
4	595.7	Fiddler’s BBQ	4	593.6	Real South BBQ	4	595.8	Rescue Smokers
5	594.6	H.and J. cooking team	5	592.5	CaJenn Smokin Que	5	595.5	Just Blowing Smoke
6	591.2	Southern Hogs	6	590	Rescue Smokers	6	590.9	Southern Hogs
7	590.8	Smokin 42 BBQ	7	589.6	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team	7	590.3	Rub Shakers Que
8	589.7	Daddy-O’s BBQ	8	587.2	Raging Smoke	8	590.2	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team
9	587.3	Sunset Smokers	9	587	H.and J. cooking team	9	587.5	Real South BBQ
10	587	Johnson Boys	10	586.3	Smokin 42 BBQ	10	587.3	H.and J. cooking team
11	586.9	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team	11	585.7	Sunset Smokers	11	587.2	Hungry Hog
12	586.3	Raging Smoke	12	584.7	Hungry Hog	12	587.2	Fiddler’s BBQ
13	585.9	CaJenn Smokin Que	13	582.6	Fiddler’s BBQ	13	582.6	CaJenn Smokin Que
14	584.4	Blue Smoke	14	582.6	Rub Shakers Que	14	580.7	Double D Cook Team
15	580	Rub Shakers Que	15	580	Forget Me Not BBQ	15	574	Raging Smoke
16	573.5	Rib Ticklers	16	579.7	Simply “Q”	16	571.2	CowboySmokin
17	571.5	Rescue Smokers	17	578.7	Just Blowing Smoke	17	570	Blue Smoke
18	569.9	CowboySmokin	18	574.5	CowboySmokin	18	569.9	Sunset Smokers
19	569.8	Hungry Hog	19	573.3	Johnson Boys	19	568.5	Rib Ticklers
20	568.1	Barbecue Crew	20	571.7	Rib Ticklers	20	566.3	Simply “Q”
21	565.2	Double D Cook Team	21	569.8	Double D Cook Team	21	565.9	Forget Me Not BBQ
22	0	Forget Me Not BBQ	22	568.5	Blue Smoke	22	562.6	Johnson Boys

	Reserve Champion Scores	Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	Daddy-O’s BBQ	589.7	594.5	597.9	1782.1
2	Real South BBQ	599.4	593.6	587.5	1780.5
3	Southern Hogs	591.2	595.8	590.9	1777.9
4	Smokin 42 BBQ	590.8	586.3	599.1	1776.2
5	Just Blowing Smoke	596.1	578.7	595.5	1770.3
6	H.and J. cooking team	594.6	587.0	587.3	1768.9
7	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team	586.9	589.6	590.2	1766.7
8	Fiddler’s BBQ	595.7	582.6	587.2	1765.5
9	Barbecue Crew	568.1	595.4	600.0	1763.5
10	CaJenn Smokin Que	585.9	592.5	582.6	1761.0
11	Rescue Smokers	571.5	590.0	595.8	1757.3
12	Rub Shakers Que	580.0	582.6	590.3	1752.9
13	Raging Smoke	586.3	587.2	574.0	1747.5
14	Simply “Q”	599.1	579.7	566.3	1745.1
15	Sunset Smokers	587.3	585.7	569.9	1742.9
16	Hungry Hog	569.8	584.7	587.2	1741.7
17	Blue Smoke	584.4	568.5	570.0	1722.9
18	Johnson Boys	587.0	573.3	562.6	1722.9
19	Double D Cook Team	565.2	569.8	580.7	1715.7
20	CowboySmokin	569.9	574.5	571.2	1715.6
21	Rib Ticklers	573.5	571.7	568.5	1713.7
22	Forget Me Not BBQ	0.0	580.0	565.9	1145.9

Jul 06 2015

Just Blowing Smoke Takes the Title at Brookhaven BBQ Bash

The Georgia Barbecue Association (GBA) invaded the metro Atlanta area for the Brookhaven BBQ Bash as part of the Brookhaven Soccerfest on the Fourth of July weekend. The weekend started with on again/off again showers throughout the day Friday. By Saturday morning, it had turned into a steady rain. The weather radar did give much hope with a continuous band of rain all the way west to Mississippi. While lightning strikes delayed the start of the Peachtree Road Race just a few miles to the south, the dedicated GBA Pitmasters continued to work their magic & turned in box after box of outstanding ‘Que.

Grand Champion – Just Blowing Smoke

Just Blowing Smoke, Robin & Amy Bowles along with Rick Goldstein, made finals in all three GBA categories, but it was their first place Pork Loin that tallied the highest score of the day from the panel of finals judges to capture the Grand Championship. Brad Sweet of 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers took home the Reserve Grand Championship when he made finals in Pulled Pork and Ribs but just missed a “triple final” by 0.6 of a point for a 4th place finish in Loin.

Reserve Champion – 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers

Between Just Blowing Smoke’s winning Loin entry & 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers 4th place box was Hard Rock Hill BBQ in 2nd place and Buckhaven BBQ, in their first competition, in 3rd place. Fifth place went to 29 Barbecue with Hootie Q taking 6th place. Rub Shakers Que took 7th place & 8th went to Simply Q. Big Mama’s & Big Daddy’s BBQ grabbed the 9th spot and Lil Bubba’s rounded out the top 10.

Fiddlers BBQ

Harvey & Shirley Wills of Fiddler’s BBQ took top honors in Pulled Pork. 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers was the runner-up and Just Blowing Smoke took 3rd place. In the preliminary round, Just Blowing Smoke tallied a perfect score of 600. Simply Q finished in 4th place. Fifth place went to Lil Bubba’s by 0.1 of a point over Hard Rock Hill BBQ. Swineholio came in 7th place followed by Porch Light in 8th; Que the Musick in 9th and Rub Shakers Que in 10th place.

The third category of the day is always Ribs and 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers topped the field. Just Blowing Smoke came in second and Swineholio finished in 3rd place. 29 Barbeque took 4th place. Simply Q edged out Fiddler’s BBQ for 5th place by 0.1 of a point. Seveth & eighth places were also close as Rub Shakers Que edged out Hard Rock Hill BBQ by just 0.2 of a point. Ninth & 10 places went to Que the Musick and Porch Light respectively.

Hard Rock Hill BBQ

The GBA really enjoyed the beautiful park in Brookhaven. It was a shame that the weather washed out most the Soccerfest activities. Our hosts for the weekend did an outstanding job & the GBA is looking forward to a return visit in the near future.

With the 2014-2015 competition season officially closed, we now look ahead to our Annual Banquet. It will be held on August 1st at Healy Point Country Club in Macon. All GBA members – cook teams, judges, sponsors, and general members – are invited to be a part of this special event. We will honor our Teams of the Year as well as our Judge of the Year. There be will nice gift bags from our sponsors as well as drawings for great door prizes. The GBA also has a Judge Training Class scheduled for August 22 at Towns Bluff Park near Hazlehurst. Go to the Contests & Events page at www.bbqga.com to register for these events.

We are excited to kick off our 2015-2016 competition season in Griffin on Sept 25-26. This will be one of three Team of the Year double points contests. The GBA State Championship will be held at the Deep Roots BBQ Festival in Milledgeville on Oct 23-24. Make you plans now to be a part of these two great events.

		LOIN			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	597	Just Blowing Smoke	1	595.8	Fiddlers BBQ	1	596.2	92BBQ/Assassin Smokers
2	594.6	Hard Rock Hill BBQ	2	595.6	92BBQ/Assassin Smokers	2	595.9	Just Blowing Smoke
3	590.1	BuckHaven Q	3	590.6	Just Blowing Smoke	3	589.2	Swineholio
4	589.8	92BBQ/Assassin Smokers	4	584.5	Simply Q	4	588.5	29 Barbeque
5	586.4	29 Barbeque	5	583.3	Lil’ Bubba’s	5	585.2	Simply Q
6	583.9	Hootie Q	6	583.2	Hard Rock Hill BBQ	6	585.1	Fiddlers BBQ
7	582.3	Rub Shakers Que	7	579.6	Swineholio	7	584.8	Rub Shakers Que
8	579.2	Simply Q	8	578.5	Porch Light	8	584.6	Hard Rock Hill BBQ
9	575.9	Big Mama and Big Daddy’s BBQ	9	576.3	Que the Musick	9	580.9	Que the Musick
10	573.7	Lil’ Bubba’s	10	576.01	Rub Shakers Que	10	580.2	Porch Light
11	573	We Want Que	11	576	29 Barbeque	11	577.4	Twissted Smoke
12	570.6	Fiddlers BBQ	12	571.8	Hootie Q	12	575.6	Hootie Q
13	565.1	Que the Musick	13	569.7	We Want Que	13	575.4	We Want Que
14	562.2	Twissted Smoke	14	569.4	Twissted Smoke	14	568.7	Lil’ Bubba’s
15	559.7	Porch Light	15	566.5	Big Mama and Big Daddy’s BBQ	15	566.2	BuckHaven Q
16	547.3	Swineholio	16	565.2	BuckHaven Q	16	553.3	Big Mama and Big Daddy’s BBQ

	Reserve Scores	Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	Just Blowing Smoke	595.1	600	592.8	1787.9
2	92BBQ/Assassin Smokers	589.8	590.8	591.5	1772.1
3	Hard Rock Hill BBQ	590.8	583.2	584.6	1758.6
4	Fiddlers BBQ	570.6	599.1	585.1	1754.8
5	29 Barbeque	586.4	576	588.5	1750.9
6	Simply Q	579.2	584.5	585.2	1748.9
7	Rub Shakers Que	582.3	576.01	584.8	1743.11
8	Hootie Q	583.9	571.8	575.6	1731.3
9	Lil’ Bubba’s	573.7	583.3	568.7	1725.7
10	Que the Musick	565.1	576.3	580.9	1722.3
11	BuckHaven Q	590.4	565.2	566.2	1721.8
12	Porch Light	559.7	578.5	580.2	1718.4
13	Swineholio	547.3	579.6	591.2	1718.1
14	We Want Que	573	569.7	575.4	1718.1
15	Twissted Smoke	562.2	569.4	577.4	1709
16	Big Mama and Big Daddy’s BBQ	575.9	566.5	553.3	1695.7

May 24 2015

A Grand Time in Fort Gaines for Dobey Q

The Fort Gaines 200 committee pulled out all stops for an amazing contest in the 1st Annual White Oak Pastures BBQ Challenge. It all started with a beautiful venue on the banks of the Chattahoochee River. The Challenge stepped up a notch when White Oak Pastures presented the People’s Choice competitors with their pasture raised chickens for the contest. Smoke over Bluffton won both the People’s Choice and the BBQ Queen’s choice with their pulled chicken

In the GBA competition, David Hair & Dobey Q’s pulled pork finals entry edges out the rib box of 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers by 0.6 of a point for the Grand Championship. That was a testament of how competitive the contest as for the first time in anyone’s memory, 9 different teams made the finals round in the three GBA categories.

Grand Champion – Dobey Q

Just Blowing Smoke – Robin & Amy Bowles and Rick Goldstien – made finals in Ribs while also taking 4th place in Loin and 5th place in Pulled Pork to take home the Reserve Champiionship.

Reserve Champion – Just Blowing Smoke

First Place Loin – CaJenn Smokin Que

CaJenn Smokin Que continued their recent hot streak by winning the Loin category. I Go Low & Slow, cooking in their first GBA event, took 2nd place while Real South BBQ took 3rd place. Fourth place went to Just Blowing Smoke with 5th place going to Fiddler’s BBQ. Rib Ticklers captured 6th place followed by Dobey Q in 7th and LawDawgs BBQ in 8th place. Ninth went to 29 BBQ and 10th went to 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers.

Dobey Q led field in Pulled Pork with Fiddlers BBQ as runner-up and H & J Cooking Team coming in 3rd place. 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers won the 4th tiebreaker over Just Blowing Smoke for 4th place. The sixth place call with to McDaniels Pit Stop BBQ with the 7th place call going to Real South BBQ. Rib Ticklers took 8th place with 29 BBQ taking 9th and Old Henry’s BBQ rounding out the top ten.

First Place Ribs – 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers

The best Ribs of the day went to 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers. Just Blowing Smoke took second. McDaniels Pit Stop BBQ made the Rib finals in their first professional contest and came in 3rd place. Old Henry’s BBQ walked in 4th place and Fiddler’s BBQ grabbed fifth. Rib Ticklers took 6th place, Chattahoochee Smoke took 7th place and Real South BBQ took 8th place. 29 BBQ and Dobey Q finished 9th and 10th respectively.

The GBA is looking forward to a return trip to Fort Gaines in 2016. The GBA will take a few weeks off the conclude the 2014-2015 contest season with the Brookhaven BBQ Bash on Fourth of July weekend.

Full Results: (1st, 2nd & 3rd place scores are from finals rounds. All others are preliminary round scores. )

		LOIN			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	596.2	CaJenn Smokin Que	1	597.9	Dobey Q	1	597.3	92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers
2	594.3	I Go Low & Slow	2	594.5	Fiddler’s BBQ	2	596.1	Just Blowing Smoke
3	591.5	Real South BBQ	3	589.6	H & J Cooking Team	3	588.6	McDaniels Pit Stop BBQ
4	592.5	Just Blowing Smoke	4	589.31	92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers	4	586.9	Old Henry’s BBQ
5	590.1	Fiddler’s BBQ	5	589.3	Just Blowing Smoke	5	586.3	Fiddler’s BBQ
6	588.8	Rib Ticklers	6	587.3	McDaniels Pit Stop BBQ	6	586.02	Rib Ticklers
7	586	Dobey Q	7	586.9	Real South BBQ	7	586.01	Chattahoochee Smoke
8	583.3	Law Dawgs	8	585.7	Rib Ticklers	8	586	Real South BBQ
9	578.7	29 BBQ	9	582.4	29 BBQ	9	585.8	29 BBQ
10	576.5	92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers	10	582.3	Old Henry’s BBQ	10	585.7	Dobey Q
11	576.3	Smokey Times	11	582.1	Law Dawgs	11	582.4	Knawty-Hawg
12	576.2	McDaniels Pit Stop BBQ	12	582	Blue Smoke BB	12	575.1	Law Dawgs
13	574.3	Hi I Que	13	579.9	CaJenn Smokin Que	13	574.7	Smokey Times
14	573.3	Chattahoochee Smoke	14	577.3	Smokey Times	14	573.6	CaJenn Smokin Que
15	572.5	Knawty-Hawg	15	571.8	Chattahoochee Smoke	15	569.4	I Go Low & Slow
16	571.3	H & J Cooking Team	16	571	Hi I Que	16	565.7	H & J Cooking Team
17	570.5	Blue Smoke BB	17	563.2	Smoke Over Bluffton	17	563.2	Smoke Over Bluffton
18	565.5	Smoke Over Bluffton	18	562.3	I Go Low & Slow	18	561.7	Blue Smoke BB
19	561.9	Old Henry’s BBQ	19	0	Knawty-Hawg	19	557.6	Hi I Que

	Reserve Scores	Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	Just Blowing Smoke	592.5	589.3	590.6	1772.4
2	Fiddler’s BBQ	590.1	594.8	586.3	1771.2
3	Real South BBQ	597.6	586.9	586	1770.5
4	Dobey Q	586	590.2	585.7	1761.9
5	Rib Ticklers	588.8	585.7	586.02	1760.52
6	McDaniels Pit Stop BBQ	576.2	587.3	596.4	1759.9
7	92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers	576.5	589.31	590.6	1756.41
8	CaJenn Smokin Que	594.5	579.9	573.6	1748
9	29 BBQ	578.7	582.4	585.8	1746.9
10	Law Dawgs	583.3	582.1	575.1	1740.5
11	H & J Cooking Team	571.3	594.3	565.7	1731.3
12	Chattahoochee Smoke	573.3	571.8	586.01	1731.11
13	I Go Low & Slow	599.4	562.3	569.4	1731.1
14	Old Henry’s BBQ	561.9	582.3	586.9	1731.1
15	Smokey Times	576.3	577.3	574.7	1728.3
16	Blue Smoke BB	570.5	582	561.7	1714.2
17	Hi I Que	574.3	571	557.6	1702.9
18	Smoke Over Bluffton	565.5	563.2	563.2	1691.9
19	Knawty-Hawg	572.5	0	582.4	1154.9

Apr 19 2015

Bubba Grills Takes Grand at Smokin’ Pork N Butts

There are a couple of things you can count on at Smokin’ Pork N Butts in Jackson. Great BBQ and Rain. Mud boots were almost as essential as grills, charcoal & wood as steady rain pelted the event for most of the weekend. In spite of the challenging conditions, the teams still made the judges work hard to determine who had the best BBQ of the day.

Fiddlers BBQ made finals in all three categories. Southern Hogs finaled in Loin & Pulled Pork. However, it was Bubba Grills Rib entry that recorded the top score in the final rounds to claim the Grand Championship.

Grand Champion – Bubba Grills

Harvery & Shirley Wills of Fiddlers BBQ, with an assist from Master Judge candidate Greg Sebastian, “Triple Finaled” and accumulated the most points in the preliminary rounds to win the Reserve Champion award.

Reserve Champion – Fiddlers BBQ

Pork Loin is always a difficult category, but the scorers had to go to the tiebreaker to determine the winner in the category. Both Fiddler’s BBQ and LawDawg BBQ scored 594.4 in the final round of Loin judging. The GBA declares “Its All About the Taste” and the Taste scores are the first level in the tiebreaker. Fiddler’s BBQ had the highest taste score & edged LawDawg for first place. LawDawg BBQ had a perfect 600 score in the preliminary Loin round. Southern Hogs grabbed third place. Que the Musick took 4th place with Just Blowing Smoke taking fifth. 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers took 6th place by winning the tiebreaker over Smokin J’s BBQ. Eighth place went to Bubba Grills; 9th place went to Smoke Shack BBQ and 10th went to Main Street BBQ.

Southern Hogs

In Pulled Pork, it was Fiddlers BBQ once again taking top honors. Southern Hogs finished as runner-up with Que the Musick in third place. Main Street BBQ got the 4th place call and Fletcher’s Finest got 5th place. Smokin the Good Stuff edged Real South BBQ for 6th place on the tiebreaker. Just Blowing Smoke also edged LawDawg BBQ in the tiebreaker for 8th place. Bubba Grills rounded out the top 10.

The Grand Championship winning Rib entry earned first place for Bubba Grills. Fiddlers BBQ completed their strong cook with the 2nd place award. Smokin the Good Stuff took 3rd place, but also had a perfect 600 score in the preliminary round. BCD (Boys Cooking Dangerously) came in 4th place. Hootie Q edged 29 BBQ by 0.1 of a point to take 5th place. Just Blowing Smoke captured 7th place and Smoke Shack BBQ captured 8th place. 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers & Rub Shakers Que finished 9th & 10th respectively.

Once again Connie & Wayne Rosser of the Butt County Exchange Club did an outstanding job managing the contest in trying conditions. The GBA heads to the Three Rivers Festival and Towns Bluff Park on the Altamaha River in Hazlehurst on May 1-2. The following week it will be Smoke on the Water on beautiful Lake Acworth. The month of May completes the water based trifecta with the 1st Annual White Oak Pastures BBQ Challenge on Lake Walter F George in Fort Gaines on May 22-23.

Full Results:

NOTE: 1st, 2nd & 3rd place scores are from Final rounds. All other scores are from Preliminary rounds.

		LOIN			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	594.41	Fiddlers BBQ	1	595.5	Fiddlers BBQ	1	596.2	Bubba Grills
2	594.4	Law Dawgs	2	593	Southern Hogs	2	594.6	Fiddlers BBQ
3	592.2	Southern Hogs	3	591.5	Que The Musick	3	591.2	Smokin the Good Stuff
4	592.1	Que The Musick	4	594.2	Main Street BBQ	4	590.3	BCD
5	591.2	Just Blowning Smoke	5	593.9	Fletcher’s Finest	5	588.9	Hootie Q
6	587.21	92BBQ/Assassin Smokers	6	593.61	Smokin the Good Stuff	6	588.8	29 Barbeque
7	587.2	Smokin J’s Barbeque	7	593.6	Real South BBQ	7	588.2	Just Blowning Smoke
8	586.9	Bubba Grills	8	591.81	Just Blowning Smoke	8	587.9	Smoke Shack BBQ
9	583.2	Smoke Shack BBQ	9	591.8	Law Dawgs	9	585	92BBQ/Assassin Smokers
10	582.9	Main Street BBQ	10	591.2	Bubba Grills	10	584.5	Rub Shakers Que
11	581.3	Hootie Q	11	590.6	Hootie Q	11	583	Raging Smoke BBQ
12	581	Forget Me Not BBQ	12	590.5	29 Barbeque	12	582.3	Que The Musick
13	579.3	Real South BBQ	13	590.2	Rub Shakers Que	13	580.6	Southern Hogs
14	570.8	Just Smokin N Around	14	584.4	Just Smokin N Around	14	579.3	We Want Que
15	570	Shark Bite BBQ	15	582.7	Raging Smoke BBQ	15	578.8	J Dubs’ Stew and Que
16	568.4	BCD	16	579.6	92BBQ/Assassin Smokers	16	578.1	Fletcher’s Finest
17	567.2	Rub Shakers Que	17	577.5	Smokin J’s Barbeque	17	576.7	Golfin Grillers
18	567.2	Fletcher’s Finest	18	574.7	Smoke Shack BBQ	18	574.7	Law Dawgs
19	566.5	Raging Smoke BBQ	19	574.6	BCD	19	574.5	Temple of The Hog
20	565.6	Temple of The Hog	20	571.5	We Want Que	20	574.2	Shark Bite BBQ
21	565.5	Smokin the Good Stuff	21	571.3	Temple of The Hog	21	573.9	Main Street BBQ
22	563.2	29 Barbeque	22	567.2	Golfin Grillers	22	573.2	Real South BBQ
23	562.2	J Dubs’ Stew and Que	23	563.5	Forget Me Not BBQ	23	570.9	Smokin J’s Barbeque
24	559.2	Golfin Grillers	24	563	Porch Light	24	570.2	Forget Me Not BBQ
25	554.7	Porch Light	25	562.5	Shark Bite BBQ	25	569.6	Porch Light
26	0	We Want Que	26	561.2	J Dubs’ Stew and Que	26	559.1	Just Smokin N Around

	Reserve Scores	Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	Fiddlers BBQ	596.4	594.9	595.1	1786.4
2	Bubba Grills	586.9	591.2	598.8	1776.9
3	Southern Hogs	595.8	594.9	580.6	1771.3
4	Just Blowning Smoke	591.2	591.81	588.2	1771.21
5	Que The Musick	592.1	596.4	582.3	1770.8
6	Law Dawgs	600	591.8	574.7	1766.5
7	Hootie Q	581.3	590.6	588.9	1760.8
8	Smokin the Good Stuff	565.5	593.61	600	1759.11
9	92BBQ/Assassin Smokers	587.21	579.6	585	1751.81
10	Main Street BBQ	582.9	594.2	573.9	1751
11	Real South BBQ	579.3	593.6	573.2	1746.1
12	Smoke Shack BBQ	583.2	574.7	587.9	1745.8
13	29 Barbeque	563.2	590.5	588.8	1742.5
14	Rub Shakers Que	567.2	590.2	584.5	1741.9
15	Fletcher’s Finest	567.2	593.9	578.1	1739.2
16	Smokin J’s Barbeque	587.2	577.5	570.9	1735.6
17	BCD	568.4	574.6	590.3	1733.3
18	Raging Smoke BBQ	566.5	582.7	583	1732.2
19	Forget Me Not BBQ	581	563.5	570.2	1714.7
20	Just Smokin N Around	570.8	584.4	559.1	1714.3
21	Temple of The Hog	565.6	571.3	574.5	1711.4
22	Shark Bite BBQ	570	562.5	574.2	1706.7
23	Golfin Grillers	559.2	567.2	576.7	1703.1
24	J Dubs’ Stew and Que	562.2	561.2	578.8	1702.2
25	Porch Light	554.7	563	569.6	1687.3
26	We Want Que	0	571.5	579.3	1150.8

Apr 06 2015

Stump Smokers Hits Trifecta at Hawkinsville Smokin’ the Track

The Hawkinsville Harness Racing Festival hosted the Georgia Barbecue Association and Smokin’ the Track BBQ competition. When the dust settled from a day of harness racing on the track; Stump Smokers, Tab & Walter “Stump” McDowell, hit the Trifecta by winning all three categories. This left no doubt that the team would also win the Grand Championship. This was only the third time in GBA history that one team made a clean sweep of all the top awards.

Grand Champion – Stump Smokers

Reserve Champions – Dobey Q

David Hair & Dobey Q made finals in both Pulled Pork & Ribs to go with a 5th place finish in Loin to capture the Reserve Grand Championship.

The runner-up to Stump Smokers in Loin was Buster Davis of Smokin’ AJs. 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers helped maintain their lead in the season’s Team of the Year standings by placing third. LawDawg, currently in second place in the TOTY standings, kept pace by coming in 4th place. Dobey Q claimed 5th place with 29 Barbecue claiming sixth. Southern Hogs finished in 7th place. Fiddlers BBQ finished 8th. CaJenn BBQ, cooking in their first GBA contest grabbed 9th place with J Dubs Stew & Que taking 10th

pulled pork entries

Stumps Smokers and Dobey Q finished first and second in both the Pulled Pork and Ribs categories. In Pulled Pork, Smokin AJs was again right there in the hunt by finishing third. Just Blowing Smoke came in 4th with LawDawg BBQ coming in fifth. Southern Hogs edge 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers for 6th place by just a tenth of a point. Forget Me Not BBQ took 8th place, HIgh Tech Smokers/Comsouth took 9th with Dixie Davis Cooks rounding out the top ten.

Smokin AJs

Following Stump Smokers and Dobey Q in Ribs was 29 Barbecue in third place. in 4th place it was Southern Hogs once again edging 92 Barbecue/Assassin Smokers but by a half a point this time. In a tie for 6th place, Real South BBQ won the coin toss over Smokin AJs. LawDawg BBQ got their third call of the day for 8th place. CaJenn BBQ got to walk a second time in their first GBA contest in 9th place. Forget Me Not BBQ also got to walk twice by taking 10th place in Ribs.

The GBA thanks the Hawkinsvile-Pulaski Co Chamber of Commerce for a great contest and an entertaining day at the Harness Racing Festival. The GBA head to Douglas for Bikes Blues & BBQ this week and then on to Jackson for Smokin Pork N Butts the following week.

Full Results.

		LOIN			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	596.1	Cookin with Stump	1	595.9	Cookin with Stump	1	597	Cookin with Stump
2	594.9	Smokin AJ’s	2	594	Dobey Q	2	593.8	Dobey Q
3	591	92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers	3	592.1	Smokin AJ’s	3	591.2	29 Barbeque
4	590.3	LawDawg BBQ	4	587.7	Just Blowin Smoke	4	589.5	Southern Hogs
5	587.9	Dobey Q	5	586.9	LawDawg BBQ	5	589	92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers
6	586.1	29 Barbeque	6	582.2	Southern Hogs	6	586.91	Real South BBQ
7	585.7	Southern Hogs	7	582.1	92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers	7	586.9	Smokin’ AJ’s
8	584.9	Fiddlers BBQ	8	581.1	Foeget Me Not BBQ	8	585.4	LawDawg BBQ
9	582.5	CaJenn BBQ	9	578.1	High-Tech Smokers/Comsouth	9	584	CaJenn BBQ
10	580.1	JDubs Stew & Que	10	574.9	Dixie Davis Cooks	10	579.6	Foeget Me Not BBQ
11	577.5	Dixie Davis Cooks	11	574.1	Real South BBQ	11	579.2	Just Blowin Smoke
12	572.9	Real South BBQ	12	572.6	Pig Dynasty	12	578.7	Lizzy Lou
13	569.4	Lizzy Lou	13	570.4	Fiddlers BBQ	13	578.7	Dixie Davis Cooks
14	568.1	Just Blowin Smoke	14	569.8	JDubs Stew & Que	14	575.1	JDubs Stew & Que
15	566	Pig Dynasty	15	567.8	29 Barbeque	15	574.1	Fiddlers BBQ
16	558.5	High-Tech Smokers/Comsouth	16	566.8	CaJenn BBQ	16	554.5	Pig Dynasty
17	548	Foeget Me Not BBQ	17	566.5	Lizzy Lou	17	0	High-Tech Smokers/Comsouth

(Reserve Champion note: If the #1 team in the Reserve stainding wins the Grand Champion, the Reserve award passes down to the #2 team)

	Reserve Scores	Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	Cookin with Stump.com	594.7	592.1	599.4	1786.2
2	Dobey Q	587.9	591.8	591.6	1771.3
3	92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers	599.4	582.1	589	1770.5
4	Smokin’ AJ’s	591.2	590	586.9	1768.1
5	LawDawg BBQ	590.3	586.9	585.4	1762.6
6	Southern Hogs	585.7	582.2	589.5	1757.4
7	29 Barbeque	586.1	567.8	590.2	1744.1
8	Just Blowin Smoke	568.1	587.7	579.2	1735
9	Real South BBQ	572.9	574.1	586.91	1733.91
10	CaJenn BBQ	582.5	566.8	584	1733.3
11	Dixie Davis Cooks	577.5	574.9	578.7	1731.1
12	Fiddlers BBQ	584.9	570.4	574.1	1729.4
13	JDubs Stew & Que	580.1	569.8	575.1	1725
14	Lizzy Lou	569.4	566.5	578.7	1714.6
15	Foeget Me Not BBQ	548	581.1	579.6	1708.7
16	Pig Dynasty	566	572.6	554.5	1693.1
17	High-Tech Smokers/Comsouth	558.5	578.1	0	1136.6