Tag: H & J Cooking Team

Apr 04 2016

Rescue Smokers Race to Win at Hawkinsville Smokin’ the Track

The heavy rains & muddy conditions forced a shutdown of the harness racing at Hawkinsville Smokin’ the Track. Most of the Georgia Barbecue Association’s (GBA) teams, however, were tucked in out of the weather under the shelter of the horse arena. It came down to a photo finish as just two tenths of a point separated the top two entries of the day. Robby Royal & Rescue Smoker won the Grand Championship when his final round Rib entry scored a 599 out of a possible 600 to slip past Brad Sweet & 92 BBQ’s score of 598.8 in Pulled Pork.

Grand Champion – Rescue Smokers

92 BBQ made finals in both Loin & Pulled Pork and added a 6th place in Ribs to take the Reserve Grand Championship.

Reserve Grand Champion – 92 BBQ

Rescue Smokers topped the Loin category. Forget Me Not BBQ & 92 BBQ tallied identical 593.3 scores in finals to tie for 2nd place. Forget Me Know won on the first tiebreaker – taste – to claim the runner-up spot. Fourth place went to We Want Que with Real South BBQ taking 5th place. Southern Hogs camin 6th, Rub Shakers Que came in 7th & Johnson Boys BBQ came in 8th place. In 9th place was Holy Smokes and in 10th place was Kelvin’s BBQ.

Ragin’ Smoke BBQ

92 BBQ had the best Pulled Pork entry of the day. Bubba Grills took 2nd place. Ragin’ Smoke BBQ made finals for the first time in the GBA & finished in 3rd place. Smokin’ AJ’s was back after a long layoff & took 4th place. Holy Smokes came in 5th with Real South BBQ just 0.3 back in 6th and another 0.3 back was Southern Hogs in 7th place. Kelvin’s BBQ, Just Blowing Smoke & Johnson Boys BBQ finished 8th thru 10th respectively.

The Grand Championship Ribs of Rescue Smokers took first place honors. Smokin’ AJ’s came in 2dn with Southern Hogs in 3rd place. The 4th place call went to H&J Cooking Team. Kelvin’s BBQ walked for the third time of the day, this time for 5th place. 92 BBQ completed their strong cook with the 6th place call. Ragin’ Smoke BBQ took 7th place; Holy Smokes took 8th & Old Henry’s BBQ claimed 9th place. Just Blowing Smoke rounded out the top 10.

The GBA congratulates Smokin’ the Track contest committee for going above & beyond in harsh conditions and delivered a well run contest. The GBA next heads to Jackson for Smoking Pork “N” Butts on April 15-16.

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

		LOIN			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	598.7	Rescue Smokers	1	598.8	92 BBQ	1	599	Rescue Smokers
2	593.3	Forget Me Not BBQ	2	593.7	Bubba Grills	2	593.4	Smokin AJ’s
3	593.3	92 BBQ	3	591.2	Ragin Smoke BBQ	3	592	Southern Hogs
4	594.8	We Want Que	4	596.1	Smokin AJ’s	4	595.1	H & J Cooking Team
5	594.5	Real South BBQ	5	594.8	Holy Smokes	5	594.8	Kelvin’s BBQ
6	591.1	Southern Hogs	6	594.5	Real South BBQ	6	590.2	92 BBQ
7	590.8	Rub Shakers Que	7	594.2	Southern Hogs	7	587.91	Ragin Smoke BBQ
8	590.3	Johnson Boys BBQ	8	591.2	Kelvin’s BBQ	8	587.9	Holy Smokes
9	589.8	Holy Smokes	9	590.5	Just Blowin Smoke	9	587.5	Old Henry’s
10	588	Kelvin’s BBQ	10	589.9	Johnson Boys BBQ	10	586.2	Just Blowin Smoke
11	583.2	Dixie Davis Cooks	11	589.6	Rub Shakers Que	11	582.6	Real South BBQ
12	582.3	Just Blowin Smoke	12	586.8	Rescue Smokers	12	582	Bubba Grills
13	580.2	Smokin AJ’s	13	582.3	We Want Que	13	581	Johnson Boys BBQ
14	575.6	H & J Cooking Team	14	581.1	H & J Cooking Team	14	579	Rub Shakers Que
15	572	Ragin Smoke BBQ	15	578	Forget Me Not BBQ	15	570.5	Forget Me Not BBQ
16	571.1	Bubba Grills	16	575.5	Old Henry’s	16	568.4	We Want Que
17	564.4	Old Henry’s	17	570.9	Dixie Davis Cooks	17	564.5	Ocmulgee Smoke
18	559.6	Ocmulgee Smoke	18	569	Ocmulgee Smoke	18	562.6	Dixie Davis Cooks

Reserve Champion Scores:

		Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	92 BBQ	599.1	596.4	590.2	1785.7
2	Southern Hogs	591.1	594.2	595.4	1780.7
3	Rescue Smokers	598.2	586.8	595.7	1780.7
4	Kelvin’s BBQ	588.0	591.2	594.8	1774.0
5	Smokin AJ’s	580.2	596.1	596.4	1772.7
6	Holy Smokes	589.8	594.8	587.9	1772.5
7	Real South BBQ	594.5	594.5	582.6	1771.6
8	Johnson Boys BBQ	590.3	589.9	581.0	1761.2
9	Rub Shakers Que	590.8	589.6	579.0	1759.4
10	Just Blowin Smoke	582.3	590.5	586.2	1759.0
11	Ragin Smoke BBQ	572.0	598.2	587.9	1758.1
12	Bubba Grills	571.1	598.8	582.0	1751.9
13	H & J Cooking Team	575.6	581.1	595.1	1751.8
14	Forget Me Not BBQ	599.1	578.0	570.5	1747.6
15	We Want Que	594.8	582.3	568.4	1745.5
16	Old Henry’s	564.4	575.5	587.5	1727.4
17	Dixie Davis Cooks	583.2	570.9	562.6	1716.7
18	Ocmulgee Smoke	559.6	569.0	564.5	1693.1

Mar 06 2016

Jack’s Old South Tops Tough Field at Tifton Rhythm & Ribs

The City of Tifton really turns out for a weekend of music, fun & food at the Rhythm & Ribs Festival. The City’s new mayor said she ordered up perfect weather for the weekend & she really delivered. Twenty two GBA teams and 24 backyard teams competed to win cash & the unique “Squeal-bert” trophies.

The field was tough as 9 of the top 10 teams in the GBA’s Team of the Year standings were on hand. In addition, well known pitmasters like Myron Mixon of Jacks Old South & Raymond Poore of REAL-licious Q were competing in their first GBA events of the season. The competition was tight. In fact, less than a point separated the three finalists for the Grand Championship. It was Jack’s Old South edging out 92 BBQ & Rub Shakers Que for the last call of the day.

Grand Champion – Jack’s Old South

Consistency across the three categories proved to be the key for Robby Royal of Rescue Smokers in winning the Reserved Grand Championship. The team tallied a 594.8 in Loin (4th place); a 594.5 in Pulled Pork (4th place) and a 594.6 in Ribs (6th place) to accumulate the highest cumulative score in the preliminary rounds.

Reserve Grand Champion – Rescue Smokers

With all these experienced pitmasters on hand, a local team in their first competition made their mark. Cool Hand Luke’s BBQ, led by Stripling Luke, made finals in both Pulled Pork & Ribs. The team also scored a perfect 600 with their preliminary round Rib entry.

Cool Hand Luke’s BBQ

1st place Loin – 92 BBQ

92 BBQ led the way in the Loin category with Jack’s Old South in second place and Rub Shakers Que in third. Rescue Smokers claimed 4th place, REAL-licious Q 5th and Smoke Stack Lightning claimed 6th. In 7th place was Rib Ticklers and 8th place went to Bubba Grills. Smokin 42 BBQ (9th) & Statesboro Blues BBQ (10th) rounded out the top ten.

Jack’s Old South won the Pulled Pork category. Bubba Grills was the runner up and Cool Hand Luke’s BBQ came in third. Rescue Smokers once again walked away with the 4th place trophy. Barbecue Crew took 5th place with REAL-licous Q taking 6th and Rib Ticklers taking 7th. Eighth place went to Real South BBQ; 9th went to CaJenn Smokin’ Que and 1oth went to Raging Smoke BBQ.

1st place Ribs – Rub Shakers Que

Bill Goddard, pitmaster for Rub Shakers Que topped the field in Ribs. 92 BBQ got the second place call and Cool Hand Luke’s BBQ walked for the second time in 3rd place. Southern Hogs finished 4th. Holy Smokers edged out Rescue Smokers for 5th place. Johnson Boys BBQ took home 7th place. Eighth thru 10th places went to Real South BBQ, Statesboro Blues BBQ and H & J Cooking Team respectively.

The GBA moves north for the Walton Co.BBQ Festival on March 11-12. This will be Double Team of the Year points event.

The Georgia Barbeque Association thanks Tyrone Spearman and his staff of volunteers for putting on an excellent contest and festival.

Full Standings: 1st, 2nd & 3rd places are final round scores. 4th place and down are preliminary round scores.

		LOIN			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	597.8	92 BBQ	1	599.5	Jack’s Old South	1	597.7	Rub Shakers Que
2	594.7	Jack’s Old South	2	594.8	Bubba Grills	2	594.3	92 BBQ
3	592.7	Rub Shakers Que	3	590.9	Cool Hand Luke’s BBQ	3	592.6	Cool Hand Luke’s BBQ
4	594.8	Rescue Smokers	4	594.51	Rescue Smokers	4	597.9	Southern Hogs
5	594.2	REAL-licious Q	5	594.5	BarBque Crew	5	594.61	Holy Smokers BBQ
6	592.7	Smoke Stack Lightning	6	592.5	REAL-licious Q	6	594.6	Rescue Smokers
7	590.9	Rib Ticklers	7	591.5	Rib Ticklers	7	594.2	Johnson Boys BBQ
8	590.8	Bubba Grills	8	591.1	Real South BBQ	8	591.2	Real South BBQ
9	590.5	Smokin’ 42 BBQ	9	590.9	Cajenn Smokin Que	9	590.8	Statesboro Blues BBQ
10	589.9	Statesboro Blues BBQ	10	589.3	Raging Smoke BBQ	10	590.5	H & J Cooking Team
11	589.6	Cajenn Smokin Que	11	588.5	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team	11	589.4	BarBque Crew
12	588.7	Holy Smokers BBQ	12	586.9	Smokin’ 42 BBQ	12	588.2	Jack’s Old South
13	586.6	Southern Hogs	13	585	Hungry Hog BBQ	13	587	Cajenn Smokin Que
14	585.3	H & J Cooking Team	14	584.6	Rub Shakers Que	14	586.9	Rib Ticklers
15	583.6	Real South BBQ	15	584.1	Smoke Stack Lightning	15	586.8	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team
16	582.4	Rib Ranch	16	584	Statesboro Blues BBQ	16	586.4	Smokin’ 42 BBQ
17	582.3	Raging Smoke BBQ	17	583.7	Southern Hogs	17	585.2	Bubba Grills
18	580.9	BarBque Crew	18	583.6	92 BBQ	18	580.5	Rib Ranch
19	573.6	Johnson Boys BBQ	19	582.6	H & J Cooking Team	19	579.1	REAL-licious Q
20	573.1	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team	20	582.6	Rib Ranch	20	576.7	Raging Smoke BBQ
21	571.7	Hungry Hog BBQ	21	578.7	Johnson Boys BBQ	21	576.5	Hungry Hog BBQ
22	563	Cool Hand Luke’s BBQ	22	566.2	Holy Smokers BBQ	22	566.3	Smoke Stack Lightning

	Reserve Grand Champion Scores	Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	Rescue Smokers	594.8	594.5	594.6	1783.9
2	Jack’s Old South	599.4	594.8	588.2	1782.4
3	92 BBQ	598.5	583.6	599.4	1781.5
4	Rub Shakers Que	595.1	584.6	598.5	1778.2
5	Bubba Grills	590.8	599.7	585.2	1775.7
6	Rib Ticklers	590.9	591.5	586.9	1769.3
7	Southern Hogs	586.6	583.7	597.9	1768.2
8	Cajenn Smokin Que	589.6	590.9	587.0	1767.5
9	Real South BBQ	583.6	591.1	591.2	1765.9
10	REAL-licious Q	594.2	592.5	579.1	1765.8
11	BarBque Crew	580.9	594.5	589.4	1764.8
12	Statesboro Blues BBQ	589.9	584.0	590.8	1764.7
13	Smokin’ 42 BBQ	590.5	586.9	586.4	1763.8
14	H & J Cooking Team	585.3	582.6	590.5	1758.4
15	Cool Hand Luke’s BBQ	563.0	594.8	600.0	1757.8
16	Holy Smokers BBQ	588.7	566.2	594.6	1749.5
17	Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team	573.1	588.5	586.8	1748.4
18	Raging Smoke BBQ	582.3	589.3	576.7	1748.3
19	Johnson Boys BBQ	573.6	578.7	594.2	1746.5
20	Rib Ranch	582.4	582.6	580.5	1745.5
21	Smoke Stack Lightning	592.7	584.1	566.3	1743.1
22	Hungry Hog BBQ	571.7	585.0	576.5	1733.2

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

Nov 01 2015

Holy Smokes Has The Wiggle & Twist To Win Johnson Co.

The first Johnson Co. Wiggle & Twist Festival included a Georgia Barbecue Association (GBA) competition. The unique festival name pays tribute to the old Wrightsville & Tennille Railroad. The old rail route had such a winding path that it picked up the nickname “Wiggle & Twist”. The festival and contest were held at the Wrightsville American Legion Post along with the Johnson Co. Chamber of Commerce. A large crowd turned to enjoy the sights & sounds of the BBQ competition; lots of vendors & great music. Holy Smokes, Gary & Dion Lanton, from nearby Dublin won both the Pulled Pork & Rib categories to claim the Grand Championship.

Grand Champion – Holy Smokes

Tifton’s Smokin’ 42 BBQ had a 599.7 preliminary score in Loin along with a 6th place in Pulled Pork and 7th place in Ribs to win the Reserve Grand Championship.

Reserve Champion – Smokin’ 42 BBQ

1st Loin – Bubba Grills

In the Loin finals, Bubba Grills edged Rescue Smokers by just 0.4 of a point to win the category. Smokin’ 42 BBQ finished third. The competition was close throughout the field as there was a 3 way tie for 4th place between Fiddlers BBQ, CaJenn Smokin Q and H & J Cooking Team. Fiddlers BBQ won the tiebreaker to take 4th place. CaJenn then won the next tiebreaker for 5th and H & J took 6th place. Georgia Boys claimed 7th place just ahead of Johnson Boys BBQ in 8th. Ninth place went to Real South BBQ and Holy Smokes got the 10th place call.

The Pulled Pork finals was almost as close as the Loin finals. Holy Smokes won the category by only 0.8 of a point over Real South BBQ. Old Henry’s BBQ may have gotten the loudest ovation of the day with their 3rd place call. The BBQ Ninja took 4th place; Georgia Boys took 5th and Smokin’ 42 BBQ took 6th place. Southern Hogs edged Bubba Grills for 7th place by 0.3 of a point. CaJenn Smokin’ Q and H & J Cooking Team finished 9th & 10th respectively.

Holy Smokes Grand Championship winning Ribs topped the category. Fiddler’s BBQ was the runner up. Fat Daddy P’s BBQ, in the first competition, got the 3rd place call. Rescue Smokers grabbed 4th place with The BBQ Ninja in 5th. Sixth place went to H & J Cooking Team with 7th place going to Smokin’ 42 BBQ. Real South BBQ took 8th place. Johnson Boys BBQ walked in 9th place and Bubba Grills rounded out the top 10.

In the Cooking for Fun Division, Mama’s Que & Stew won the Pulled Pork category with Big Papa BBQ in 2nd & Smokin’ Snowballs in 3rd. In Cooking for Fun Ribs, Big Papa BBQ walked last. Master Basters took 2nd and Smokin’s Snowballs, again, took 3rd place.

Cooking For Fun Pork – Mama’s Que & Stew

Cooking for Fun Ribs – Big Papa’s BBQ

The GBA thanks all the coordinators and volunteers of the Johnson Co. Wiggle & Twist for their outstanding hospitality including a delicious Friday evening welcome dinner for all the teams & GBA officials. The group put on a great first year event & the GBA is looking forward to returning next year.

Full Results: (note in the GBA standings 1st, 2nd & 3rd place scores are from the finals round. All other scores are from the preliminary rounds.)

		LOIN			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	595.4	BUBBA GRILLS	1	597.9	HOLY SMOKES	1	599.4	HOLY SMOKES
2	595	RESCUE SMOKERS	2	597.1	REAL SOUTH BBQ	2	594.6	FIDDLERS BBQ
3	594.2	SMOKIN’ 42 BBQ	3	587.9	OLD HENRY’S BBQ	3	589.7	FAT DADDY P’S BBQ
4	591.2	FIDDLERS BBQ	4	592.2	THE BBQ NINJA	4	594.8	RESCUE SMOKERS
5	591.2	CAJENN SMOKING Q	5	591.5	GEORGIA BOYS	5	591.9	THE BBQ NINJA
6	591.2	H & J COOKING TEAM	6	589.9	SMOKIN’ 42 BBQ	6	590.6	H & J COOKING TEAM
7	585.9	GEORGIA BOYS	7	587.5	SOUTHEN HOGS	7	588.7	SMOKIN’ 42 BBQ
8	582	JOHNSON BOYS BBQ	8	587.2	BUBBA GRILLS	8	584.5	REAL SOUTH BBQ
9	580.9	REAL SOUTH BBQ	9	586.6	CAJENN SMOKING Q	9	582.3	JOHNSON BOYS BBQ
10	579	HOLY SMOKES	10	585	H & J COOKING TEAM	10	581.2	BUBBA GRILLS
11	576.6	OLD HENRY’S BBQ	11	582.6	RESCUE SMOKERS	11	580.4	OLD HENRY’S BBQ
12	571.5	SOUTHEN HOGS	12	581.7	FAT DADDY P’S BBQ	12	578.7	SOUTHEN HOGS
13	570.5	THE BBQ NINJA	13	576.8	FIDDLERS BBQ	13	573.8	CAJENN SMOKING Q
14	562.7	FAT DADDY P’S BBQ	14	567.2	JOHNSON BOYS BBQ	14	558.8	GEORGIA BOYS

		Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	SMOKIN’ 42 BBQ	599.7	589.9	588.7	1778.3
2	HOLY SMOKES	579.0	598.8	598.8	1776.6
3	RESCUE SMOKERS	599.1	582.6	594.8	1776.5
4	H & J COOKING TEAM	591.2	585.0	590.6	1766.8
5	BUBBA GRILLS	595.8	587.2	581.2	1764.2
6	FIDDLERS BBQ	591.2	576.8	595.8	1763.8
7	REAL SOUTH BBQ	580.9	595.2	584.5	1760.6
8	OLD HENRY’S BBQ	576.6	598.8	580.4	1755.8
9	THE BBQ NINJA	570.5	592.2	591.9	1754.6
10	CAJENN SMOKING Q	591.2	586.6	573.8	1751.6
11	FAT DADDY P’S BBQ	562.7	581.7	595.7	1740.1
12	SOUTHEN HOGS	571.5	587.5	578.7	1737.7
13	GEORGIA BOYS	585.9	591.5	558.8	1736.2
14	JOHNSON BOYS BBQ	582.0	567.2	582.3	1731.5

Cooking For Fun:

		PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	591.5	MAMA’S QUE & STEW	1	589.8	BIG PAPA BBQ
2	589.8	BIG PAPA BBQ	2	584.2	MASTER BASTERS
3	587.5	SMOKING SNOWBALLS	3	579.4	SMOKING SNOWBALLS
4	575.7	MASTER BASTERS	4	576	SPANK YO BUTT BBQ
5	0	SPANK YO BUTT BBQ	5	573	MAMA’S QUE & STEW

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