Tag: Smoke Ring Aficianados

May 11 2014

Smokin’ 42 Dominates at Smoke on the Lake

Smokin’ 42 Dominates at Smoke on the Lake

 

The “Black Train” made the long trip from Tifton to Acworth worthwhile by dominating the field at Smoke on the Lake at Cauble Park on Lake Acworth.  The team turned the GBA “hat trick” by making finals in all three categories.  They capped off the strong run in the preliminary rounds with a perfect 600 score in Ribs.  It was, however, their Pork Loin entry that had the highest score in the finals rounds for the Grand Championship win.

 

Grand Champion - Smokin' 42 BBQ

Grand Champion – Smokin’ 42 BBQ

 

Reserve Champion - Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack

Reserve Champion – Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack

 

Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack, who is trying to hold off the hard charging Smokin’ 42 BBQ team in the GBA Team of the Year standings, also had a successful weekend by making finals in Pork Loin & Pulled Pork and took home the Reserve Championship. Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack holds a slim 21 point lead in the Team of the Year standings with only one contest remaining in the 2013-2014 season.

Smokin’ 42 BBQ’s final round score of 599.1 topped the Pork Loin category. Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack took the 2nd spot Trey Barnes of Butt Rubbin’ BBQ finished third. Bubba Grills took 4th place with 92 BBQ in 5th. Sixth thru 10th places went to Wild Smoke, Just Smoke N Around, Smoke Ring Aficionados, Plum Superior BBQ and Natural Born Smokers.

The win in Pulled Pork went to Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack with Bubba Grills taking 2nd place. Smokin 42 BBQ grabbed third place and Plum Superior BBQ grabbed 4th place. 92 BBQ edged out Butt Rubbin BBQ for 5th place by 0.3 of a point. Smokin’ J’s finished in 7th with Smokin’ HOTlanta in 8th place. Rounding out the top 10 was Just Smoke N Around BBQ and Smoke Ring Aficionados.

Smokin’ 42 BBQ followed up the prefect score in the Ribs preliminary round with the top score in the Ribs finals round. 92 BBQ was the runner up. Third place went to Plum Superior BBQ and 4th place went to Smokin’ J’s. Natural Born Smokers completed the top 5. Sixth place went to Bubba Grills with Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack just 0.6 of a point back in 7th place.  Just Smoke N Around, Smokin’ HOTlanta & Butt Rubbin; BBQ finished 8th thru 10th place respectively

The North Cobb Rotary Club also sponsored a GBA Cooking for Fun Division that drew 21 teams.  Swineholio won the Grand Champion award and East Coast BBQ was named the Reserve Champion.

Cooking For Fun Grand Champion - Swineholio

Cooking For Fun Grand Champion – Swineholio

Cooking For Fun Grand Champion - Swineholio

Cooking For Fun Grand Champion – Swineholio

 

 

Swineholio won the Chicken competition with How Bout Them Hawks in second place. Holy Smokers NS took 3rd place with Smokin’ Z BBQ in 4th and Smokin’ Snowballs in 5th place.  Smokin’ Z BBQ finished on top in Pulled Pork. Swineholio was the runner up. Third thru 5th places went to East Coast BBQ, Big Blue BBQ and Nice Rack BBQ. The winner in the Ribs category was Smokin’ Jackets. CJ BBQ grabbed 2nd place and Swineholio grabbed third. East Coast BBQ and Grills Gone Wild completed the top five. 

The North Cobb Rotary Club did an outstanding job in spite of rain off and on throughout the weekend. Even with the rain washing out the Firday nite concert and fireworks, the Acworth community still turned out to support the event & the People’s Choice contests generated over $5,000 for charity.

The Georgia Barbecue Association will wind up the 2013-2014 competition season in Dallas, GA with the Paulding Co. Stars & Stripes BBQ Cook Off & Festival on June 20-21.

GBA Division Results:

LOIN   PULLED PORK
1 599.1 Smokin 42 BBQ 1 596 Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack
2 592.6 Sauced Hog Smoke Shack 2 594.7 Bubba Grills
3 590.3 Butt Rubbin BBQ 3 591.3 Smokin 42 BBQ
4 591.8 Bubba Grills 4 590.6 Plum Superior BBQ
5 588.2 92 BBQ 5 590.2 92 BBQ
6 579.3 Wild Smoke 6 589.9 Butt Rubbin BBQ
7 577.2 Just Smoke “N” Around BBQ 7 587.5 Smokin J’s
8 576.7 Smoke Ring Aficianiados 8 583.9 Smokin Hotlanta
9 572.3 Plum Superior BBQ 9 578.4 Just Smoke “N” Around BBQ
10 568.4 Natural Born Smokers 10 577.4 Smoke Ring Aficianiados
11 564.5 Smokin Hotlanta 11 577.1 Wild Smoke
12 564.1 Smokin J’s 12 569 Atlanta Butts Society
13 562.9 Stand With Barry 13 568.2 Natural Born Smokers
14 557 Atlanta Butts Society 14 555 Stand With Barry

 

RIBS
1 597.3 Smokin 42 BBQ
2 595.9 92 BBQ
3 588.8 Plum Superior BBQ
4 585.5 Smokin J’s
5 582.7 Natural Born Smokers
6 579.9 Bubba Grills
7 579.3 Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack
8 578.1 Just Smoke “N” Around BBQ
9 576 Smokin Hotlanta
10 575.4 Butt Rubbin BBQ
11 571.4 Stand With Barry
12 571.2 Smoke Ring Aficianiados
13 556.3 Wild Smoke
14 552.9 Atlanta Butts Society

 

Reserve Scores
Loin Pulled Ribs Total
1 Smokin 42 BBQ 592.4 595.8 600 1788.2
2 Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack 595.1 595.4 579.3 1769.8
3 92 BBQ 588.2 590.2 589.9 1768.3
4 Bubba Grills 591.8 594.8 579.9 1766.5
5 Plum Superior BBQ 572.3 590.6 595.1 1758
6 Butt Rubbin BBQ 591.81 589.9 575.4 1757.1
7 Smokin J’s 564.1 587.5 585.5 1737.1
8 Just Smoke “N” Around BBQ 577.2 578.4 578.1 1733.7
9 Smoke Ring Aficianiados 576.7 577.4 571.2 1725.3
10 Smokin Hotlanta 564.5 583.9 576 1724.4
11 Natural Born Smokers 568.4 568.2 582.7 1719.3
12 Wild Smoke 579.3 577.1 556.3 1712.7
13 Stand With Barry 562.9 555 571.4 1689.3
14 Atlanta Butts Society 557 569 552.9 1678.9

Cooking For Fun Division Results:

CHICKEN   PULLED PORK
1 599.4 SWINEHOLIO 1 593.3 SMOKIN Z BBQ
2 595.7 HOW BOUT THEM HAWKS 2 591.8 SWINEHOLIO
3 594.8 HOLY SMOKERS 3 590.2 EAST COAST BBQ
4 591.3 SMOKIN Z BBQ 4 588.3 BIG BLUE BBQ
5 586.9 SMOKIN SNOWBALLS 5 586.7 NICE RACK BBQ
6 585.9 EAST COAST BBQ 6 585.2 SMOKIN SNOWBALLS
7 579.6 BALDY’S BUTTS 7 583.5 HICKORY FLAT BBQ CO.
8 579.3 HICKORY FLAT BBQ CO. 8 582 FOREFATHERS
9 578.6 BIG BLUE BBQ 9 579.8 CJ BBQ
10 578.4 NICE RACK BBQ 10 579.4 HOLY SMOKERS
11 577.7 SWINE DINING BBQ 11 579.3 BALDY’S BUTTS
12 575.6 BOOTLEGGER BBQ 12 579 KOMADO KOMMANOS
13 575.2 CJ BBQ 13 579 4 SMOKIN DOOLEYS
14 571.8 4 SMOKIN DOOLEYS 14 577.8 HEY JACK BBQ
15 570.6 WE WANT QUE 15 577.3 SWINE DINING BBQ
16 570.3 SMOKIN JACKETS 16 576.7 BOOTLEGGER BBQ
17 568.6 SWEET BOTTOM BBQ 17 576.3 HOW BOUT THEM HAWKS
18 566.3 GRILLS GONE WILD 18 573.6 SWEET BOTTOM BBQ
19 565.8 FOREFATHERS 19 572.4 WE WANT QUE
20 564.9 HEY JACK BBQ 20 567.7 GRILLS GONE WILD
21 0 KOMADO KOMMANOS 21 563.9 SMOKIN JACKETS
RIBS
1 586.9 SMOKIN JACKETS
2 583.2 CJ BBQ
3 582.9 SWINEHOLIO
4 582.2 EAST COAST BBQ
5 581.6 GRILLS GONE WILD
6 580 BOOTLEGGER BBQ
7 577.5 KOMADO KOMMANOS
8 576.9 HOW BOUT THEM HAWKS
9 576.8 4 SMOKIN DOOLEYS
10 576.6 HOLY SMOKERS
11 576.6 SWINE DINING BBQ
12 575.5 FOREFATHERS
13 575.1 HICKORY FLAT BBQ CO.
14 575.1 NICE RACK BBQ
15 574.8 WE WANT QUE
16 574.7 SMOKIN SNOWBALLS
17 572.6 SWEET BOTTOM BBQ
18 572 BALDY’S BUTTS
19 570.5 BIG BLUE BBQ
20 567.4 HEY JACK BBQ
21 535.3 SMOKIN Z BBQ

 

Grand Champion Scores
CHICKEN Pulled Ribs Total
1 SWINEHOLIO 599.4 591.8 582.9 1774.1
2 EAST COAST BBQ 585.9 590.2 582.2 1758.3
3 HOLY SMOKERS 594.8 579.4 576.6 1750.8
4 HOW BOUT THEM HAWKS 595.7 576.3 576.9 1748.9
5 SMOKIN SNOWBALLS 586.9 585.2 574.7 1746.8
6 NICE RACK BBQ 578.4 586.7 575.1 1740.2
7 CJ BBQ 575.2 579.8 583.2 1738.2
8 HICKORY FLAT BBQ CO. 579.3 583.5 575.1 1737.9
9 BIG BLUE BBQ 578.6 588.3 570.5 1737.4
10 BOOTLEGGER BBQ 575.6 576.7 580 1732.3
11 SWINE DINING BBQ 577.7 577.3 576.6 1731.6
12 BALDY’S BUTTS 579.6 579.3 572 1730.9
13 4 SMOKIN DOOLEYS 571.8 579 576.8 1727.6
14 FOREFATHERS 565.8 582 575.5 1723.3
15 SMOKIN JACKETS 570.3 563.9 586.9 1721.1
16 SMOKIN Z BBQ 591.3 593.3 535.3 1719.9
17 WE WANT QUE 570.6 572.4 574.8 1717.8
18 GRILLS GONE WILD 566.3 567.7 581.6 1715.6
19 SWEET BOTTOM BBQ 568.6 573.6 572.6 1714.8
20 HEY JACK BBQ 564.9 577.8 567.4 1710.1
21 KOMADO KOMMANOS 0 579 577.5 1156.5

May 12 2013

Smokin’ 42 BBQ Earns First Grand Championship at Smoke on the Lake

Smokin’ 42 BBQ Earns First Grand Championship at Smoke on the Lake

It’s  a long haul up I-75 from Tifton to Acworth. The trip back down the interstate after the Smoke on the Lake contest didn’t seem quite as long for Smokin’ 42 BBQ with their first Grand Championship trophy riding shotgun.  However, the win didn’t come easy the Men in Black.  For the first time in GBA history there was a three way tie for Grand Champion.  Bubba Grills won the Pork Loin category;  Rub Shakers Que won Pullled Pork and Smokin’ 42 BBQ was tops in Ribs all with a score in the final round of 599.1.  The contest reps had to go thru eight levels of the tiebreaker system before Smokin’ 42 BBQ edged out the other two teams.

Grand Champion - Smokin' 42 BBQ

Grand Champion – Smokin’ 42 BBQ

Bubba Grills continued his strong run through the 2012-2013 contest season by making finals in both Loin and Ribs.  These scores helped the team accumulate the top total score in the preliminary rounds and win Reserve Grand Champion.

Reserve Grand Champion - Bubba Grills

Reserve Grand Champion – Bubba Grills

Rub Shakers Que, cooking in their first GBA contest, joined the GBA 600 club with a perfect 600 score in the Pulled Pork preliminary round. They followed up with the top score on the Pulled Pork finals table to take first place in the category. Smokin’ 42 BBQ took second place.  Two more first time GBA competitors, Smoke Ring Aficionados and Drums A’ Smokin’, finished third and fourth respecitively. Jason Adams of Anarque came in fifth.

Lonnie Smith, pitmaster of Bubba Grills, topped the field in Loin with Anarque in second and Jethro’s Cooking Crew in third. Smoke Ring Aficionados edged out Butt Rubbin’ BBQ for fourth place by 0.2 of a point.

Smokin’ 42 BBQ turned in the best Ribs of the day. Bubba Grills was runner-up and Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack took third place. But Rubbin’ BBQ and Rub Shakers Que rounded out the top five.

The GBA also held it’s first ever Cooking for Fun division at Smoke on the Lake.  The Cooking for Fun division is for teams who love to cook and want to get started in the GBA style of competitive BBQ.  Cooking for Fun contests have lower entry fees than a regular GBA contest and do not have a finals round.   The Fat Guys had the highest scoring box of the day with a 595.1 in Pulled Pork to take the Grand Championship.

Cooking for Fun Grand Champion - The Fat Guys

Cooking for Fun Grand Champion – The Fat Guys

The Fat Guys also has the highest cumulative score over the three categories, but since they won Grand Champion, the Reserve Grand Championship passed down the the second highest cumulative score by Direct Lender BBQ.

Cooking for Fun Reserve Grand Champion - Direct Lender BBQ

Cooking for Fun Reserve Grand Champion – Direct Lender BBQ

 The Fat Guys won the Chicken category with Squealz on Wheelz in second and Red Top BBQ in third.  Holy Smokers NS took first in Ribs followed by Hickory Flat BBQ and Direct Lenders BBQ. It was The Fat Guys again getting the first place call. This time for Pulled Pork. Sweet Bottom BBQ was the runner-up and Direct Lender BBQ again took third place.

Cooking for Fun First Place Ribs - Holy Smokers NS

Cooking for Fun First Place Ribs – Holy Smokers NS

The GBA would like to thank the North Cobb Rotary Club and the City of Acworth for hosting a great contest on beautiful Lake Acworth.

Smoke on the Lake GBA Division
Scores in RED are final round scores
Pulled Pork Pork Loin
1 599.1 Rub Shackers Que   1 599.1 Bubba Grills
2 591.8 Smokin ’42 BBQ   2 593.9 Anar-que
3 585.6 Smoke Ring Afficianadoes   3 591.5 Jethro’s Cooking  Crew
4 588.8 Drums A’ Smokin 4 587.2 Smoke Ring Afficianadoes
5 588.4 Anar-que 5 587 Butt Rubbin BBQ
6 587 Sauced Hog Smoke Shack 6 586.3 Sauced Hog Smoke Shack
7 584.2 Old Henry’s BBQ 7 582.1 Daddy’s Bar-B-Q
8 583.3 Bubba Grills 8 581.1 Old Henry’s BBQ
9 580.2 Butt Rubbin BBQ 9 577.9 Smokin ’42 BBQ
10 575 Daddy’s Bar-B-Q 10 576.6 Rub Shackers Que
11 572.6 Plum Superior 11 570.6 Plum Superior
12 570.7 Jethro’s Cooking  Crew 12 563.3 Drums A’ Smokin
RIBS
1 599.1 Smokin ’42 BBQ
2 598.5 Bubba Grills
3 586.9 Sauced Hog Smoke Shack
4 587.3 Butt Rubbin BBQ
5 586.7 Rub Shackers Que
6 583.4 Anar-que
7 582 Plum Superior
8 573.6 Drums A’ Smokin
9 570.3 Daddy’s Bar-B-Q
10 569.9 Smoke Ring Afficianadoes
11 569.9 Jethro’s Cooking  Crew
12 569.6 Old Henry’s BBQ
Reserve Scores GBA Division 
 Preliminary round scores only Ribs Pulled Loin Total
1 Bubba Grills 591.8 583.3 590.3 1765.4
2 Sauced Hog Smoke Shack 591.2 587 586.3 1764.5
3 Anar-que 583.4 588.4 592.1 1763.9
4 Smokin ’42 BBQ 590 595.7 577.9 1763.6
5 Rub Shackers Que 586.7 600 576.6 1763.3
6 Butt Rubbin BBQ 587.3 580.2 587 1754.5
7 Smoke Ring Afficianadoes 569.9 589.1 587.2 1746.2
8 Jethro’s Cooking  Crew 569.9 570.7 595.5 1736.1
9 Old Henry’s BBQ 569.6 584.2 581.1 1734.9
10 Daddy’s Bar-B-Q 570.3 575 582.1 1727.4
11 Drums A’ Smokin 573.6 588.8 563.3 1725.7
12 Plum Superior 582 572.6 570.6 1725.2

 

Smoke on the Lake Cooking for Fun Division

Pulled Pork   Chicken
1 595.1 The Fat Guys 1 594.8 The Fat Guys
2 590.8 Sweet Bottom BBQ 2 585.9 Squealz on Wheels
3 587.6 Direct Lender BBQ 3 585.2 Red Top BBQ
4 587.2 Hickory Flat BBQ Co 4 583.2 Hey Jack, BBQ
5 583.6 Red Top BBQ 5 583 Nice Rack BBQ
6 580.6 Squealz on Wheels 6 582.9 Direct Lender BBQ
7 579.3 Nice Rack BBQ 7 579.6 Grills Gone Wild
8 577.9 Four Fathers BBQ Crew 8 579 Sweet Bottom BBQ
9 571.8 How ‘Bout Them Hawgs 9 576.5 Smoking Snowballs
10 569.3 Holy Smokers NS 10 576.1 Hickory Flat BBQ Co
11 567.3 Hey Jack, BBQ 11 568.8 Holy Smokers NS
12 566.9 Bootlegger’s BBQ 12 565.5 Four Fathers BBQ Crew
13 563.3 Grills Gone Wild 13 564.1 Smokin’ Jackets
14 560.9 Smoking Snowballs 14 556.1 Slow Cookers at Play
15 552.5 Smokin’ Jackets 15 555.7 Bootlegger’s BBQ
16 546.1 Slow Cookers at Play 16 532.3 How ‘Bout Them Hawgs
RIBS
1 589.8 Holy Smokers NS
2 588.5 Hickory Flat BBQ Co
3 584 Direct Lender BBQ
4 583.3 Smokin’ Jackets
5 582.4 Sweet Bottom BBQ
6 579.6 Nice Rack BBQ
7 579.1 Smoking Snowballs
8 578.1 How ‘Bout Them Hawgs
9 577.7 Red Top BBQ
10 576.3 The Fat Guys
11 575 Bootlegger’s BBQ
12 571.4 Squealz on Wheels
13 569.8 Hey Jack, BBQ
14 567.1 Slow Cookers at Play
15 563.7 Grills Gone Wild
16 555.8 Four Fathers BBQ Crew

 

Reserve Scores Cooking for Fun Division
Ribs Pulled Chicken Total
1 The Fat Guys 576.3 595.1 594.8 1766.2
2 Direct Lender BBQ 584 587.6 582.9 1754.5
3 Sweet Bottom BBQ 582.4 590.8 579 1752.2
4 Hickory Flat BBQ Co 588.5 587.2 576.1 1751.8
5 Red Top BBQ 577.7 583.6 585.2 1746.5
6 Nice Rack BBQ 579.6 579.3 583 1741.9
7 Squealz on Wheels 571.4 580.6 585.9 1737.9
8 Holy Smokers NS 589.8 569.3 568.8 1727.9
9 Hey Jack, BBQ 569.8 567.3 583.2 1720.3
10 Smoking Snowballs 579.1 560.9 576.5 1716.5
11 Grills Gone Wild 563.7 563.3 579.6 1706.6
12 Smokin’ Jackets 583.3 552.5 564.1 1699.9
13 Four Fathers BBQ Crew 555.8 577.9 565.5 1699.2
14 Bootlegger’s BBQ 575 566.9 555.7 1697.6
15 How ‘Bout Them Hawgs 578.1 571.8 532.3 1682.2
16 Slow Cookers at Play 567.1 546.1 556.1 1669.3