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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

Mar 22 2015

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

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

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

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

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

Mar 17 2015

29 Barbeque Wins First GBA Grand at Hitachi Walton Co BBQ Festival

Barry Spayberry and 29 Barbeque took first place honors in both Pulled Pork and Ribs, but it was the Rib entry that edged out Pulled Pork box for highest score in the Finals rounds to win the Grand Championship at the Hitachi Walton Co BBQ Festival. Twenty five teams turned out for the first year event with many of the teams competing in the GBA for the first time.

Grand Champion – 29 Barbeque

Reserve Champions – Just Blowing Smoke

Just Blowing Smoke was the runner up in both Loin and Pulled Pork as well as 7th in Ribs to claim the Reserve Championship for the second contest in a row.

Kerry Sparks and Lawdawg BBQ recorded a perfect 600 score in the Loin preliminary round to lead the way into the finals rounds. They followed that up with the top entry in the finals round to take first place. Just Blowing Smoke was second. Third place went to Forget Me Not BBQ with 29 Barbeque taking 4th place. Smoking Armadillo was 5th, 4 K’s BBQ was 6th and Simply Q was 7th place. Eighth through 10th places went to DCR BBQ, Smokin’ Suwanee Sweetmeats and Porch Light respectively.

29 Barbeque led the way in Pulled Pork with Just Blowing Smoke once again in 2nd place. Porkinator took home 3rd place. Hootie Q came in 4th place. Smokin’ Suwanee Sweetmeats was 0.3 of a point better than Hitachi for 5th place. Southern Hog won the tiebreaker for 7th place over Simply Q. Lawdawg BBQ claimed 9th place with Georgia Smoke BBQ claiming 10th.

First Place Loin – LawDawg BBQ

In Ribs, it was 29 Barbeque once again at the top. Porkinator edged out Smokin’ Armadillo for second place by just 0.2 of a point. Smokin’ Suwanee Sweetmeats completed their strong showing with a 4th place finish in the category. 4 K’s BBQ took 5th with DCR BBQ taking 6th place. Just Blowing Smoke came in 7th. Old Henry’s BBQ took 8th place by winning the tiebreaker over Porch Light. Sharbite BBQ rounded out the top 10.

Next up for the GBA is the Durhamtown Spring Fling & BBQ Contest on March 20-21. Three great contests are on tap for April in the GBA: Hawkinsville’s Smokin’ the Track on April 3-4; Bikes Blues & BBQ in Douglas on April 10-11 and Smokin’ Pork N Butts in Jackson on April 17-18.

Full Results:

		LOIN			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	595.9	LawDawg BBQ	1	595.7	29 Barbeque	1	598.2	29 Barbeque
2	595.1	Just Blowing Smoke	2	594.6	Just Blowing Smoke	2	592	Porkinator
3	591	Forget Me Not BBQ	3	591.7	Porkinator	3	591.8	Smokin Armadillo
4	589.4	29 Barbeque	4	591.1	Hootie Q	4	592.1	Smokin’ Suwanee Sweatmeats
5	589.1	Smokin Armadillo	5	590.5	Smokin’ Suwanee Sweatmeats	5	591.9	4K’s BBQ
6	587.2	4K’s BBQ	6	590.2	Hitachi	6	591.5	DCR BBQ
7	586.1	Simply Q	7	588.5	Southern Hog	7	588.2	Just Blowing Smoke
8	585.6	DCR BBQ	8	588.5	Simply Q	8	586.6	Old Henry’s BBQ
9	585.2	Smokin’ Suwanee Sweatmeats	9	588.2	LawDawg BBQ	9	586.6	Porch Light
10	580.9	Porch Light	10	587.8	Georgia Smoke BBQ	10	582.9	Shark Bite BBQ
11	580.3	Southern Hog	11	587	Smokin J’s Barbeque	11	582.5	BCD
12	578.3	Hitachi	12	586.2	Senational Pigs	12	581	Rollin’ Smoke Competition Que
13	577.4	Georgia Smoke BBQ	13	583.3	DCR BBQ	13	580.9	Southern Hog
14	575.9	Old Henry’s BBQ	14	582	Maxus Porkamus	14	580.4	Hootie Q
15	572.4	Robison’s BBQ	15	582	Shark Bite BBQ	15	580	Forget Me Not BBQ
16	572.3	Senational Pigs	16	581.3	Smokin Armadillo	16	575.6	Robison’s BBQ
17	570.8	Maxus Porkamus	17	579.1	4K’s BBQ	17	575	Tiretoter’s BBQ
18	569.7	Porkinator	18	577.2	Rollin’ Smoke Competition Que	18	572.4	LawDawg BBQ
19	569.1	Rollin’ Smoke Competition Que	19	576.4	Tiretoter’s BBQ	19	572.2	Senational Pigs
20	568.5	Shark Bite BBQ	20	575	Robison’s BBQ	20	571.5	Simply Q
21	567.5	JT’s Smoking Butts	21	573.7	Forget Me Not BBQ	21	571.1	Georgia Smoke BBQ
22	566.2	Hootie Q	22	571.1	Old Henry’s BBQ	22	570.4	Smokin J’s Barbeque
23	564.1	Tiretoter’s BBQ	23	564.5	JT’s Smoking Butts	23	568.8	Maxus Porkamus
24	563.5	Smokin J’s Barbeque	24	563.5	BCD	24	564.5	Hitachi
25	563.2	BCD	25	558	Porch Light	25	558.2	JT’s Smoking Butts

	Reserve Scores	Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	Just Blowing Smoke	596.4	599.7	588.2	1784.3
2	29 Barbeque	589.4	596.1	595.8	1781.3
3	Smokin Armadillo	589.1	581.3	600	1770.4
4	Smokin’ Suwanee Sweatmeats	585.2	590.5	592.1	1767.8
5	Porkinator	569.7	594.9	596.7	1761.3
6	LawDawg BBQ	600	588.2	572.4	1760.6
7	DCR BBQ	585.6	583.3	591.5	1760.4
8	4K’s BBQ	587.2	579.1	591.9	1758.2
9	Southern Hog	580.3	588.51	580.9	1749.71
10	Forget Me Not BBQ	593.1	573.7	580	1746.8
11	Simply Q	586.1	588.5	571.5	1746.1
12	Hootie Q	566.2	591.1	580.4	1737.7
13	Georgia Smoke BBQ	577.4	587.8	571.1	1736.3
14	Old Henry’s BBQ	575.9	571.1	586.61	1733.61
15	Shark Bite BBQ	568.5	582	582.9	1733.4
16	Hitachi	578.3	590.2	564.5	1733
17	Senational Pigs	572.3	586.2	572.2	1730.7
18	Rollin’ Smoke Competition Que	569.1	577.2	581	1727.3
19	Porch Light	580.9	558	586.6	1725.5
20	Robison’s BBQ	572.4	575	575.6	1723
21	Maxus Porkamus	570.8	582	568.8	1721.6
22	Smokin J’s Barbeque	563.5	587	570.4	1720.9
23	Tiretoter’s BBQ	564.1	576.4	575	1715.5
24	BCD	563.2	563.5	582.5	1709.2
25	JT’s Smoking Butts	567.5	564.5	558.2	1690.2

Mar 10 2015

Smokin’ 42 Defends Home Turf Again in Tifton

Smokin’ 42 BBQ Defends Home Turf Again in Tifton

Twenty six Georgia Barbecue Associations teams gathered at Fulwood Park in Tifton, Ga for Rhythm & Ribs. The event in Tifton has become a favorite among the teams with a great venue and a large music and crafts festival to go along with the BBQ competition For the second year in a row, the hometown boys of Smokin’ 42 BBQ took home top honors by wining both the Loin & Pulled Pork categories and the Grand Championship. Chad Brooks and his crew were certainly on top of their game as they also recorded a perfect 600 score in the preliminary round of Pulled Pork. The event in Tifton has become a favorite among the teams with a great venue and a large music and crafts festival to go along with the BBQ competition

Grand Champion – Smokin 42 BBQ

Reserve Champion – Just Blowing Smoke

Robin Bowles and Just Blowing Smoke made finals in Pulled Pork and Ribs along with 8th place in Loin to capture the Reserve Grand Champion award.

Chad Brooks and Smokin 42 BBQ’s score of 596.7 was the top score among the three finalists in Loin to take first place. Captain Jack’s Fredom BBQ Team took seond place with 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers taking third place. Fourth place went to Bubba Grills with Dobey Q in fifth place. LawDawg BBQ won the tiebreaker over Stumps Smokers BBQ Team for 6th place. In eighth place was Just Blowing Smoke with H & J Cooking team in 9th and Holy Smokes rounding out the top 10.

Smokin’ 42 BBQ followed up the perfect 600 score in Pulled Pork preliminaries with a near perfect 599.1 score in the finals round to win the category. Stumps Smokers BBQ Team came in 2nd place with Just Blowing Smoke in third. Rub Shakers Que took 4th place by 0.3 of a point over Law Dawg BBQ. Swine Time Grilling Team won 6th place in the tiebreaker over H & J Cooking Team. Dobey Q captured 8th place. Bethel Smokers came in 9th with Captain Jack’s Freedom BBQ Team in 10th place

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Jimmy Hornbuckle and Swine Time Grilling Team turned in the best Rib box of the day. Captain Jacks Freedom BBQ Team was the runner up with Just Blowing Smoke finishing in 3rd place and Bethel Smokers finishing in 4th place. Stumps Smokers BBQ Teams won the tiebreaker to take 5th place over H & J Cooking Team. J Dub Stew & Que grabbed 7th place and . Dobey Q took 8th place. It was Real South BBQ & Holy Smokes coming in 9th & 10 places respectively.

Rythm & Ribs also held a non-sanctioned backyard contest. Kason Gray of Wicked Lickin’ BBQ Team got the Grand Championship call for the second year in a row.

The GBA heads north for the Hitiachi Walton Co BBQ Festival on March 13.14 followed by Durhamtown Spring Jam & BBQ Cookoff on March 20-21.

Full Results:

		LOIN			PULLED PORK
1	596.7	Smokin’ 42 BBQ	1	599.1	Smokin’ 42 BBQ
2	593	Captain Jack Freedom BBQ Team	2	592	Stumps Smokers BBQ Team
3	592.3	92 BBQ Assassin Smokers	3	590.9	Just Blowing Smoke
4	598.8	Bubba Grills	4	593.9	Rub Shakers Que
5	598	Dobey Q	5	593.6	Law Dawg BBQ
6	595.11	Law Dawg BBQ	6	591.81	Swine Time Grilling Team
7	595.1	Stumps Smokers BBQ Team	7	591.8	H & J Cooking Team
8	594.8	Just Blowing Smoke	8	590.9	Dobey Q
9	591.8	H & J Cooking Team	9	590.3	Bethel Smoker
10	590.2	Holy Smokes	10	588.8	Captain Jack Freedom BBQ Team
11	588.8	Bones Grill Shack	11	585.1	Rib Ticklers
12	582.7	Bethel Smoker	12	585	Real South BBQ
13	580.5	J Dub’s Stew and Que	13	584.5	92 BBQ / Assassin Smokers
14	580	Rub Shakers Que	14	583.9	Holy Smokes
15	577.3	Smokey Times	15	579.9	Smokin J’s Barbecue
16	570.5	Dirt Road Smokerz	16	578.7	For Get Me Not BBQ
17	569	For Get Me Not BBQ	17	578.6	Flint River Cookers
18	568.3	Rib Ticklers	18	577.2	Bubba Grills
19	565.1	Southern Hogs	19	576.8	Nature Boy BBQ
20	565.1	Flint River Cookers	20	572.2	Raging Smoke BBQ
21	564.7	Raging Smoke BBQ	21	572.1	Southern Hogs
22	563.8	Smokin J’s Barbecue	22	570.4	Bones Grill Shack
23	563.8	Swine Time Grilling Team	23	569.5	Smokey Times
24	560.8	Wisham Jellies Smokers	24	565.7	J Dub’s Stew and Que
25	559.3	Real South BBQ	25	562.4	Dirt Road Smokerz
26	546.5	Nature Boy BBQ	26	560.8	Wisham Jellies Smokers

		RIBS
1	598.9	Swine Time Grilling Team
2	591.7	Captain Jack Freedom BBQ Team
3	591	Just Blowing Smoke
4	592.1	Bethel Smoker
5	591.21	Stumps Smokers BBQ Team
6	591.2	H & J Cooking Team
7	590.8	J Dub’s Stew and Que
8	588.5	Dobey Q
9	588.2	Real South BBQ
10	587.2	Holy Smokes
11	583.9	92 BBQ / Assassin Smokers
12	583.6	For Get Me Not BBQ
13	583.6	Bubba Grills
14	583.3	Smokin’ 42 BBQ
15	583	Rub Shakers Que
16	580	Smokey Times
17	580	Law Dawg BBQ
18	576.3	Southern Hogs
19	575.7	Dirt Road Smokerz
20	575.1	Flint River Cookers
21	575	Smokin J’s Barbecue
22	570	Raging Smoke BBQ
23	569.8	Rib Ticklers
24	567.8	Nature Boy BBQ
25	567.2	Bones Grill Shack
26	558.2	Wisham Jellies Smokers

	Reserve Scores	Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	Just Blowing Smoke	594.8	594.3	595.7	1784.8
2	Smokin’ 42 BBQ	599.7	600	583.3	1783
3	Stumps Smokers BBQ Team	595.1	595.8	591.21	1782.11
4	Captain Jack Freedom BBQ Team	599.1	588.8	592.11	1780.01
5	Dobey Q	598	590.9	588.5	1777.4
6	H & J Cooking Team	591.8	591.8	591.2	1774.8
7	Law Dawg BBQ	595.11	593.6	580	1768.71
8	92 BBQ / Assassin Smokers	599.1	584.5	583.9	1767.5
9	Bethel Smoker	582.7	590.3	592.1	1765.1
10	Holy Smokes	590.2	583.9	587.2	1761.3
11	Bubba Grills	598.8	577.2	583.6	1759.6
12	Rub Shakers Que	580	593.9	583	1756.9
13	Swine Time Grilling Team	563.8	591.81	599.1	1754.71
14	J Dub’s Stew and Que	580.5	565.7	590.8	1737
15	Real South BBQ	559.3	585	588.2	1732.5
16	For Get Me Not BBQ	569	578.7	583.6	1731.3
17	Smokey Times	577.3	569.5	580	1726.8
18	Bones Grill Shack	588.8	570.4	567.2	1726.4
19	Rib Ticklers	568.3	585.1	569.8	1723.2
20	Flint River Cookers	565.1	578.6	575.1	1718.8
21	Smokin J’s Barbecue	563.8	579.9	575	1718.7
22	Southern Hogs	565.1	572.1	576.3	1713.5
23	Dirt Road Smokerz	570.5	562.4	575.7	1708.6
24	Raging Smoke BBQ	564.7	572.2	570	1706.9
25	Nature Boy BBQ	546.5	576.8	567.8	1691.1
26	Wisham Jellies Smokers	560.8	560.8	558.2	1679.8

Dec 07 2014

Barbecue Crew Takes Grand on Home Turf

Foy Whatley of the Barbece Crew had the rest of the GBA Pitmasters right where he wanted them on his home turf at the Moultrie Moose Lodge Cookoff. Whatley racked up the top score in the finals round with his Pulled Pork entry to claim the Grand Championship in the second year event.

Gtand Champion – Barbecue Crew

Just Blowing Smoke made finals in both Loin and Ribs to go with a 7th place finish in Pulled Pork to win the Reserve Champion award.

Reserve Champion – Just Blowing Smoke

H & J Cooking Team

Just Blowing Smoke led the way in the Loin category with H & J Cooking Team and Buster Davis of Smokin’ AJ’s following in second and third. Real South BBQ took fourth place with Lawdawg BBQ taking fifth. Sixth place with to 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers. Fiddler’s BBQ finished 7th and Sunset Smokers finished 8th Ninth place went to Marky Mark Smokin Butts with Phoebe Worth Rib Ticklers rounding out the top 10.

Barbecue Crew had the best Pulled Pork of the contest. H & J Cooking Teams again was the runner up. Hungry Hog BBQ took third place. 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers just missed the finals on a tiebreaker to come in fourth place. Fiddler’s BBQ took fifth place with Forget Me Not BBQ taking 6th place. In 7th place was Just Blowing Smoke and Real South BBQ finished in 8th place. Smokin’ AJs and Durt Road Smokerz finished ninth & tenth respectively.

Hungry Hog BBQ

Just Blowing Smoke won their second category of the contest with the top score in Ribs. Fiddler’s BBQ came in second with Travis & Montae Webb of Sunset Smokers coming in third place. H & J Cooling Team took fourth place. Fifth place went to Marky Mark Smokin Butts in just their second contest. Double D Cooking Team took sixth place and Smokin J’s BBQ took seventh place. Eighth through tenth places were Durt Road Smokerz, Colquitt Cookers and Lawdawg BBQ.

In the backyard contest Larry Cavendar of Screaming Eagle BBQ won the chicken category with Cowboy Smokin. G.W. McLeod pitmaster, winning Pulled Pork and Ribs.

Screaming Eagle BBQ	Cowboy Smokin

		Loin
1	598.1	JUST BLOWING SMOKE
2	592.7	H & J COOKING TEAM
3	590.6	SMOKIN AJ’S BBQ
4	595.1	REAL SOUTH BBQ
5	594.5	LAWDAWG BBQ
6	593	92 BBQ/ASSASSIN SMOKERS
7	589.6	FIDDLERS BBQ
8	586.3	SUNSET SMOKERS
9	585.4	MARKY MARK’S SMOKING BUTTS
10	585.1	PHOEBE WORTH RIB TICKLERS
11	581.5	SMOKIN J’S BBQ
12	574	OLD HENRY’S BBQ
13	572.2	DURT ROAD SMOKERZ
14	571.8	BARBECUE CREW
15	564.7	HUNGRY HOG BBQ
16	563.4	DOUBLE D COOKING TEAM
17	558.5	COLQUITT COOKERS
18	555.8	FORGET ME NOT BBQ

		PULLED PORK
1	599.3	BARBECUE CREW
2	590.4	H & J COOKING TEAM
3	589.9	HUNGRY HOG BBQ
4	590.3	92 BBQ/ASSASSIN SMOKERS
5	590	FIDDLERS BBQ
6	589.6	FORGET ME NOT BBQ
7	589.31	JUST BLOWING SMOKE
8	589.3	REAL SOUTH BBQ
9	586.3	SMOKIN AJ’S BBQ
10	585.7	DURT ROAD SMOKERZ
11	581.4	PHOEBE WORTH RIB TICKLERS
12	580.2	DOUBLE D COOKING TEAM
13	578.8	LAWDAWG BBQ
14	576.8	SUNSET SMOKERS
15	573	OLD HENRY’S BBQ
16	572.4	SMOKIN J’S BBQ
17	568.7	COLQUITT COOKERS

		RIBS
1	598.9	JUST BLOWING SMOKE
2	594.4	FIDDLERS BBQ
3	588.7	SUNSET SMOKERS
4	589.7	H & J COOKING TEAM
5	587.6	MARKY MARK’S SMOKING BUTTS
6	586.3	DOUBLE D COOKING TEAM
7	586	SMOKIN J’S BBQ
8	584.8	DURT ROAD SMOKERZ
9	582.8	COLQUITT COOKERS
10	582.7	LAWDAWG BBQ
11	582.4	SMOKIN AJ’S BBQ
12	579.8	PHOEBE WORTH RIB TICKLERS
13	577.9	REAL SOUTH BBQ
14	577.6	92 BBQ/ASSASSIN SMOKERS
15	575.5	BARBECUE CREW
16	569	HUNGRY HOG BBQ
17	568.1	FORGET ME NOT BBQ
18	564.7	OLD HENRY’S BBQ

	Reserve Scores
		Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	JUST BLOWING SMOKE	595.8	589.31	593.9	1779.01
2	H & J COOKING TEAM	598.2	590.31	589.7	1778.21
3	FIDDLERS BBQ	589.6	590	590.3	1769.9
4	SMOKIN AJ’S BBQ	599.4	586.3	582.4	1768.1
5	REAL SOUTH BBQ	595.1	589.3	577.9	1762.3
6	92 BBQ/ASSASSIN SMOKERS	593	590.3	577.6	1760.9
7	SUNSET SMOKERS	586.3	576.8	595.2	1758.3
8	LAWDAWG BBQ	594.5	578.8	582.7	1756
9	PHOEBE WORTH RIB TICKLERS	585.1	581.4	579.8	1746.3
10	BARBECUE CREW	571.8	595.8	575.5	1743.1
11	DURT ROAD SMOKERZ	572.2	585.7	584.8	1742.7
12	SMOKIN J’S BBQ	581.5	572.4	586	1739.9
13	HUNGRY HOG BBQ	564.7	598.2	569	1731.9
14	DOUBLE D COOKING TEAM	563.4	580.2	586.3	1729.9
15	FORGET ME NOT BBQ	555.8	589.6	568.1	1713.5
16	OLD HENRY’S BBQ	574	573	564.7	1711.7
17	COLQUITT COOKERS	558.5	568.7	582.8	1710
18	MARKY MARK’S SMOKING BUTTS	585.4	0	587.6	1173