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

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

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