Tag: Fiddler’s BBQ

Nov 23 2014

A Grand Time in Albany for Dobey Que

(pictures courtesy of Donald Tilton of Classic Impression)

The Quail Classic Event in Albany, GA and the Georgia Barbecue Association joined forces for the first time. The event was held at the Stonebridge Country Club. The teams and judges enjoyed the hospitality of this unique venue especially the different twist on a people’s choice contest with their Hospitality Challenge.

David Hair, cooking for the first time in GBA as Dobey Que, got the final call of the day and the Grand Championship.

Grand Champion – Dobey Que

Kerry Sparks of LawDawg BBQ continued her strong run of contests by making finals in both Loin and Pulled Pork along with a 6th place finish in Ribs. The gave LawDawg BBQ the top cumulative score across the three categories in the preliminary rounds and the Reserve Championship.

Reserve Champion – LawDawg BBQ

Fiddler’s BBQ

Shirley & Harvey Wills of Fiddlers BBQ won the People”s Choice Hospitality Challenge. H & J Cooking Team took second place with Marky Mark’s Smoking Butts capturing third place.

Dobey Que’s Grand Championship Loin entry topped the category with LawDawg BBQ as runner-up and H & J Cooking Team in third.place. Fourth place went to Old Henry’s BBQ, fifth place went to Real South BBQ and sixth place went to Fiddler’s BBQ. Just Blowing Smoke took seventh place with Hungry Hog BBQ in eighth place. The ninth place call went to Southern Hogs with 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers rounding out the top 10.

LawDawg BBQ had to top Pulled Pork Box of the contest. Hungry Hog BBQ was a close second. Real South BBQ took third place. Fourth place went to Fiddler’s BBQ and fifth place went to Just Blowing Smoke. Southern Hogs grabbed sixth place; H & J Cooking team grabbed seventh and Durt Road Smokers grabbed eighth place. 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers and Old Henry’s BBQ finished ninth and tenth respectively.

Real South BBQ

In Ribs, it was Tim Coleman and Real South BBQ for the win. Second place went to 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers. Dobey Que took third place with Southern Hogs in fourth. Just Blowing Smoke and LawDawg BBQ tied for fifth place with Just Blowing Smoke getting the nod on the 4th tiebreaker. H & Cooking Team came in seventh place. There was also a tie for eighth place and it went to the 5th tiebreaker before Fiddler’s BBQ edged out Old Henry’s BBQ. Hungry Hog got the tenth place call

The Georgia Barbecue Association would like to thank the administration and staff of Stonebridge Country Club for putting on an outstanding contest.

Full Results:

		LOIN			Pullled Pork	RIBS
1	280	Dobey Que	1	596.9	Law Dawg BBQ		1	597.4	Real South BBQ
2	594.4	Law Dawg BBQ	2	595.3	Hungry Hog BBQ		2	594.2	92BBQ/Assassin Smokers
3	588.7	H&J Cooking Team	3	589.3	Real South BBQ		3	590	Dobey Que
4	586.2	Old Henrys BBQ	4	586.9	Fiddlers BBQ		4	584.2	Southern Hogs
5	582.8	Real South BBQ	5	585.7	Just Blowing Smoke		5	583.91	Just Blowing Smoke
6	580.3	Fiddlers BBQ	6	581.6	Southern Hogs		6	583.9	Law Dawg BBQ
7	578.6	Just Blowing Smoke	7	581.5	H&J Cooking Team		7	583.3	H&J Cooking Team
8	578.3	Hungry Hog BBQ	8	577.6	Durt Road Smokers		8	580.31	Fiddlers BBQ
9	566.3	Southern Hogs	9	576.2	92BBQ/Assassin Smokers		9	580.3	Old Henrys BBQ
10	563.8	92BBQ/Assassin Smokers	10	573.8	Old Henrys BBQ		10	579.3	Hungry Hog BBQ
11	561.4	Marky Marks Smoking Butts	11	560.3	Marky Marks Smoking Butts		11	572.7	Durt Road Smokers
12	545.7	Durt Road Smokers	12	0	Dobey Que		12	556.2	Marky Marks Smoking Butts

	Reserve Scores
		Loin	Pork	Ribs
1	Law Dawg BBQ	598.8	592.1	583.9	1774.8
2	Real South BBQ	582.8	590.1	591.8	1764.7
3	H&J Cooking Team	588.5	581.5	583.3	1753.3
4	Just Blowing Smoke	578.6	585.7	583.91	1748.21
5	Fiddlers BBQ	580.3	586.9	580.31	1747.51
6	Hungry Hog BBQ	578.3	587.8	579.3	1745.4
7	Old Henrys BBQ	586.2	573.8	580.3	1740.3
8	92BBQ/Assassin Smokers	563.8	576.2	596.4	1736.4
9	Southern Hogs	566.3	581.6	584.2	1732.1
10	Durt Road Smokers	545.7	577.6	572.7	1696
11	Marky Marks Smoking Butts	561.4	560.3	556.2	1677.9
12	Dobey Que	596.7	0	594.5	1191.2

Oct 12 2014

South Cobb BBQ & Blues Gets Smoked Rescue Style

Robby Royal and Rescue Smokers,of BBQ Pitmasters fame, took first place in both Pulled Pork and Ribs at the South Cobb BBQ & Blues Festival. It was his near perfect score of 599.1 in the Pulled Pork finals round that netted the team the Grand Championship

Grand Champion – Rescue Smokers

Just Blowing Smoke, Robin Bowles PItmaster, made finals in Loin; finished 5th in Pulled Pork and 7th in Ribs to take home the Reserve Championship.

Reserve Champion – Just Blowing Smoke

Butt Rubbin BBQ

The first category of the contest was Loin and Just Blowing Smoke topped the field. Butt Rubbin BBQ took second place and 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers took third. Rescue Smokers actually tied for third place but lost the tiebreaker to miss finals and finished in fourth place. Hard Rock Hill BBQ came in fifth place with Dixie Que in sixth. Smokin Butts BBQ took seventh; Rub Shakers Que took eighth; Fiddlers BBQ took ninth and We Want Que took 10th place.

CJs

Rescue Smokers won the Pulled Pork category with CJ’s as runner-up. We Want Que grabbed third place with 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers in fourth and Just Blowing Smoke in fifth place. There was a tie for sixth place and Fiddler’s BBQ won the tiebreaker over Dixie Que. Rub Shakers Que, Smokin’ the Good Stuff and Hard Rock Hill BBQ finished eighth through tenth respectively.

It was Rescue Smokers taking their second win of the day with the top scoring Rib box. Rub Shakers Que came in second with Smokin’ The Good Stuff coming in third. Fiddlers BBQ took fourth; Smoking J’s took fifth place and Dixie Que took sixth place. Seventh place went to Just Blowing Smoke. The final three calls in Ribs were very close. Butt Rubbin’ BBQ got the eighth place call by just 0.2 of a point over We Want Que in ninth. Just 0.1 of a point back was Daddy-O’s BBQ in tenth place.

The Georgia Barbecue Association really enjoyed their first trip to Austell and the South Cobb BBQ & Blues Festival We want to thank the contest organizers and the staff of the beautiful EpiCenter for hosting a great contest. Next week, the GBA heads to MIlledgeville for the Deep Roots Fesitval

Full Contest Results:

		LOIN
1	596.3	Just Blowing Smoke
2	594.2	Butt Rubb’n BBQ
3	591.5	92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers
4	592.4	Rescue Smokers
5	588.2	Hard Rock Hill BBQ
6	583.6	Dixie Que
7	582.9	Smokin Butts BBQ
8	580.2	Rub Shakers Que
9	579.9	Fiddler’s BBQ
10	575.9	We Want Que
11	575.1	Smokin’ the Good Stuff
12	574.8	Smokin’ Hotlanta
13	571.4	CJ’s
14	571.4	Where There’s Smoke
15	570.2	Smokin J’s Barbeque
16	569.7	Temple of the Hog
17	566.6	Daddy-O’s_BBQ

		PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	599.1	Rescue Smokers	1	597.2	Rescue Smokers
2	593.5	CJ’s	2	593.2	Rub Shakers Que
3	588.2	We Want Que	3	591.6	Smokin’ the Good Stuff
4	594.5	92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers	4	591.2	Fiddler’s BBQ
5	592.1	Just Blowing Smoke	5	589.9	Smokin J’s Barbeque
6	591.21	Fiddler’s BBQ	6	587.5	Dixie Que
7	591.2	Dixie Que	7	584.8	Just Blowing Smoke
8	590.6	Rub Shakers Que	8	582.2	Butt Rubb’n BBQ
9	587.6	Smokin’ the Good Stuff	9	582	We Want Que
10	586.1	Hard Rock Hill BBQ	10	581.9	Daddy-O’s_BBQ
11	582	Daddy-O’s_BBQ	11	578.6	92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers
12	582	Smokin’ Hotlanta	12	577.1	Hard Rock Hill BBQ
13	578.9	Butt Rubb’n BBQ	13	575.1	Smokin’ Hotlanta
14	575.4	Smokin J’s Barbeque	14	572.5	Smokin Butts BBQ
15	575.4	Smokin Butts BBQ	15	564.8	CJ’s
16	568.5	Where There’s Smoke	16	563.9	Where There’s Smoke
17	566.1	Temple of the Hog	17	560.6	Temple of the Hog

	Reserve Scores
		Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	Rescue Smokers	592.4	595.7	596.4	1784.5
2	Just Blowing Smoke	599.7	592.1	584.8	1776.6
3	Rub Shakers Que	580.2	590.6	595.4	1766.2
4	92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers	592.41	594.5	578.6	1765.51
5	Fiddler’s BBQ	579.9	591.21	591.2	1762.31
6	Dixie Que	583.6	591.2	587.5	1762.3
7	Butt Rubb’n BBQ	596.1	578.9	582.2	1757.2
8	Smokin’ the Good Stuff	575.1	587.6	592.4	1755.1
9	We Want Que	575.9	595.2	582	1753.1
10	Hard Rock Hill BBQ	588.2	586.1	577.1	1751.4
11	Smokin J’s Barbeque	570.2	575.4	589.9	1735.5
12	Smokin’ Hotlanta	574.8	582	575.1	1731.9
13	CJ’s	571.4	595.4	564.8	1731.6
14	Smokin Butts BBQ	582.9	575.4	572.5	1730.8
15	Daddy-O’s_BBQ	566.6	582	581.9	1730.5
16	Where There’s Smoke	571.4	568.5	563.9	1703.8
17	Temple of the Hog	569.7	566.1	560.6	1696.4me

Sep 28 2014

Just Blowin’ Smoke Wins the Shootout at Doc Holiday Festival

The GBA made its debut at the Doc Holiday Festival in downtown Griffin, GA and it turned into a 3 way shootout for the Grand Championship. In the end, the Loin entry by Robin Bowles & Just Blowin’ Smoke topped the Pulled Pork box by Dixie Que’s Rick Godfrey and the Ribs entry of Gary Lanton of Holy Smokes.

Grand Champion – Just Blowin’ Smoke

Dixie Que finaled in Pulled Pork, finished 6th in Ribs and 11th in Loin to take the Reserve Championship for the top cumulative score in the three preliminary rounds.

Reserve Champion – Dixie Que

Just Blowin’ Smoke’s championship Loin box topped the category. Two Fat Boys & A Grill came in second with Rolling Smoke Competition Que in third place. Swine Time Grillin’ Team took fourth place. 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers edged Bearded BBQ for fifth place on the tiebreaker. Real South BBQ grabbed seventh place and RTC Smokin’ grabbed eighth place. Fiddler’s BBQ in ninth and H & J Cooking Team in tenth rounded out the top 10,

Dixie Que won Pulled Pork with Just Blowin’ Smoke the runner-up. Fiddler’s BBQ came in third with H & J Cooking Team in fourth. Swine Time Grillin’ Team nailed down the fifth spot. Sixth place went to Rub Shakers Que and seventh place went to Old Henry’s BBQ. In eight place was Holy Smokes; in ninth place was Smokin’ J’s and in tenth place was Real South BBQ.

First Place Ribs – Holy Smokes

Holy Smokes had the best box of Ribs on the day. Two Fat Boys & A Grill took second place with 29 Barbecue taking third place. 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers edged out Rub Shakers Que for fourth place by 0.3 of a point. Dixie Que finished in the sixth spot. In seventh place was Fiddler’s BBQ with RTC Smokin’ in eighth place. Real South BBQ and Just Blowin’ Smoke tied for ninth place with Real South BBQ coming out on top in the tiebreaker.

The Doc Holiday Festival also held a GBA sanctioned Cooking for Fun contest. The GBA’s Cooking for Fun division competes in two categories: Pulled Pork and Ribs. Simply Q topped Swine Dining in Pulled Pork. Swine Dining returned the favor by topping Simply Q to win the Ribs category.

CFF Pulled Pork 1st Place – Simply Q

CFF Ribs 1st Place – Swine Dining

The GBA teams, judges and officials had a great time at the Doc Holiday Festival and are looking forward to a return trip in 2015. The next stop on the GBA contest trail with another first year event at the South Cobb BBQ & Blues Festival at the EpiCenter in Austell, GA. Full results below:

		LOIN			PULLED PORK
1	598.3	Just Blowing Smoke	1	595.8	Dixie Que
2	594.1	Two Fat Boys & A Grill	2	595.5	Just Blowing Smoke
3	588.7	Rollin’ Smoke Competition Que	3	588	Fiddlers BBQ
4	585.2	Swine Time Cooking Team	4	590.8	H&J’s
5	583.6	92BBQ Assassin Smokers	5	587.2	Swine Time Cooking Team
6	583.6	Bearded BBQ	6	582.9	Rub Shakers Que
7	583	Real South BBQ	7	581	Old Henry BBQ
8	579.9	RTC Smokin	8	580.2	Holy Smokes
9	579.5	Fiddlers BBQ	9	579.7	Smokin J’s Barbeque
10	577.7	H&J’s	10	579	Real South BBQ
11	577.4	Dixie Que	11	578.3	92BBQ Assassin Smokers
12	575.1	Holy Smokes	12	577.7	RTC Smokin
13	574.1	Smokin J’s Barbeque	13	575.3	29 Barbeque
14	573.5	Smokin Butts BBQ	14	571.1	Killer Swine
15	571.1	Killer Swine	15	569.5	Bearded BBQ
16	569.8	29 Barbeque	16	564.3	Daddy-O’s
17	564.8	Daddy-O’s	17	563.6	Rollin’ Smoke Competition Que
18	562.2	Old Henry BBQ	18	559.3	Smokin Butts BBQ
19	561.3	Rub Shakers Que	19	556.9	Two Fat Boys & A Grill
20	556.2	Dawg Pit BBQ	20	551.7	Dawg Pit BBQ

		RIBS
1	596.1	Holy Smokes
2	594.8	Two Fat Boys & A Grill
3	591.1	29 Barbeque
4	587.8	92BBQ Assassin Smokers
5	587.5	Rub Shakers Que
6	584	Dixie Que
7	582.6	Fiddlers BBQ
8	579.9	RTC Smokin
9	576.6	Real South BBQ
10	576.6	Just Blowing Smoke
11	574.7	Swine Time Cooking Team
12	572.5	Rollin’ Smoke Competition Que
13	569.2	Daddy-O’s
14	567	H&J’s
15	566	Killer Swine
16	563.9	Dawg Pit BBQ
17	558.9	Smokin J’s Barbeque
18	557.6	Smokin Butts BBQ
19	556.2	Old Henry BBQ

	Reserve Scores
		Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	Just Blowing Smoke	595.7	594.8	576.6	1767.1
2	Dixie Que	577.4	597.1	584	1758.5
3	Fiddlers BBQ	579.5	591.2	582.6	1753.3
4	Holy Smokes	575.1	580.2	595.1	1750.4
5	92BBQ Assassin Smokers	583.61	578.3	587.8	1749.71
6	Swine Time Cooking Team	585.2	587.2	574.7	1747.1
7	29 Barbeque	569.8	575.3	595.5	1740.6
8	Real South BBQ	583	579	576.61	1738.61
9	RTC Smokin	579.9	577.7	579.9	1737.5
10	H&J’s	577.7	590.8	567	1735.5
11	Two Fat Boys & A Grill	586.6	556.9	591.2	1734.7
12	Rub Shakers Que	561.3	582.9	587.5	1731.7
13	Rollin’ Smoke Competition Que	595.4	563.6	572.5	1731.5
14	Smokin J’s Barbeque	574.1	579.7	558.9	1712.7
15	Killer Swine	571.1	571.1	566	1708.2
16	Old Henry BBQ	562.2	581	556.2	1699.4
17	Daddy-O’s	564.8	564.3	569.2	1698.3
18	Smokin Butts BBQ	573.5	559.3	557.6	1690.4
19	Dawg Pit BBQ	556.2	551.7	563.9	1671.8
20	Bearded BBQ	583.6	569.5	0	1153.1

Cooking For Fun Pulled Pork

599.1	Simply “Q”
595.4	Swine Dining

Cooking For Fun Ribs

588.5	Swine Dining
581.8	Simply “Q”
573	Cookin & Drinkin BBQ

Jun 22 2014

Bubba Grills Gets The Last Call at Paulding Co Stars & Stripes BBQ

Grand Champion – Bubba Grills

The battle for Grand Champion at the first Paulding Co. Stars & Stripes BBQ Contest in Dallas, GA was just as heated as the summer afternoon, Bubba Grills’ Rib entry and Smokin’ 42 BBQ’s Loin entry both scored 596.2 points in the finals round. This forced the Grand Championship to be decided on a tiebreaker. It didn’t take long, however, as Bubba Grills won the first level tiebeaker to claim the Grand Championship.

Competing in their first GBA contest, Robin Bowles and the Just Blowing Smoke team made finals in Loin and Pulled Pork along with a fifth place finish in Ribs to take the Reserve Championship Award.

Reserve Champion – Just Blowing Smoke

First Place Loin – Smokin’ 42 BBQ

Smokin’ 42 BBQ continued to rule the Pork Loin category by winning the category for the 6th time this season. Just Blowing Smoke took second place with Bubba Grills taking third. Brad Sweet of 92 BBQ finished in 4th place and another first time GBA competitor, Reading BBQ finished in fifth place. Sixth place went to The Fat Redneck BBQ Co. Seventh place went to Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack. Eighth place went to Smokin’ J’s. Ninth place went to Swine Time Grilling Team. Rounding out the top 10 was the only lady pitmaster in the contest, Crystal Smitherman of Hard Rock Hill BBQ.

First Place Pork – Fiddler’s BBQ

Harvey Willis of Fiddler’s BBQ had the top Pulled Pork entry of the contest. Just Blowing Smoke was just 0.6 of a point behind for their second runner-up finish. TC’s BBQ came in third place. Smokin’ 42 BBQ claimed 4th place with H & J BBQ taking fifth. Sixth place went to Swine and Shine BBQ. The Fat Redneck BBQ Co. & Swine Time Grilling Team finished 7th and 8th place respectively. Moe Cason of Poderosa BBQ and TV’s BBQ Pitmasters fame, took 9th place. Bubba Grills got the 10th place call.

Bubba Grills’ Grand Champiionship winning Ribs were tops in the category. Ponderosa BBQ came in second place. Smokin Squealers, another team cooking their first GBA contest, came in third place. 92 BBQ grabbed 4th place with Just Blowing Smoke in fifth place. Four Fathers BBQ edged out Just Smoke N Around BBQ for 6th place by just 0.1 of a point. Eighth thru tenth places went to TC’s BBQ, Fiddler’s BBQ and Butt Rubbin’ BBQ.

First Place Pork Cooking for Fun – Screaming Eagle BBQ

First Place Ribs Cooking for Fun – The Fat Guys

The contest also held a GBA Cooking For Fun division competition. Larry Cavendar of Screaming Eagle BBQ won the Pulled Pork Category. The Fat Guys took second place with We Want Q in third. The Fat Guys, pitmaster Robert Holt, had the top Ribs entry of the division. Sreaming Eagle BBQ was the runner-up with Pig Buster BBQ in third place.

This completes the 2013-2014 contest year for the Georgia Barbecue Association. The new contest year with begin with the GBA State Championships at the Hambone Jam in Fort Valley on September 5-6. The GBA will hold the first ever Team of the Year banquet on August 16 in Macon. More details of the banquet will be posted soon on the GBA website: www.bbqg.com

Full Contest Results:


		LOIN
1	596.2	Smokin’ 42
2	595.3	Just Blowing Smoke
3	589.8	Bubba Grills
4	591.2	92 BBQ
5	588.6	Reading Smoke
6	587.2	The Fat Redneck BBQ Company
7	586.9	Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack
8	585.4	Smokin J’s
9	582.7	Swine Time Grilling
10	580.7	Hardrock Hill’s BBQ
11	579.2	Butts & Brews BBQ
12	579.1	TC BBQ
13	579	Ponderosa BBQ
14	579	Smoking Butts BBQ
15	577.7	Just Smoke N Around
16	577.5	H & J Cook Team
17	575.4	Smokin Squealers
18	575.2	Bird Dog BBQ
19	572.7	Butt Rubb’n BBQ
20	571.8	Dirt Road Smokers
21	571.8	Fiddler’s BBQ
22	571.5	Old Henry BBQ
23	570.3	Four Fathers BBQ
24	570.2	Squeal Team Six
25	568.4	Swine and Shine BBQ
26	563.2	Smoking the Good Stuff


		PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	595.6	Fiddler’s BBQ	1	596.2	Bubba Grills
2	595	Just Blowing Smoke	2	595.1	Ponderosa BBQ
3	591.1	TC BBQ	3	591.3	Smokin Squealers
4	589.2	Smokin’ 42	4	594.2	92 BBQ
5	588.6	H & J Cook Team	5	590.9	Just Blowing Smoke
6	587.8	Swine and Shine BBQ	6	588.2	Four Fathers BBQ
7	586.6	The Fat Redneck BBQ Company	7	588.1	Just Smoke N Around
8	586	Swine Time Grilling	8	587.2	TC BBQ
9	584.3	Ponderosa BBQ	9	584.8	Fiddler’s BBQ
10	583.9	Bubba Grills	10	582.9	Butt Rubb’n BBQ
11	581.6	Bird Dog BBQ	11	582.3	Old Henry BBQ
12	581.6	Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack	12	582.3	Bird Dog BBQ
13	581	Smoking the Good Stuff	13	581.1	Swine Time Grilling
14	579.1	92 BBQ	14	579	Squeal Team Six
15	579.1	Hardrock Hill’s BBQ	15	577.6	H & J Cook Team
16	579	Squeal Team Six	16	575.6	Hardrock Hill’s BBQ
17	577.7	Butts & Brews BBQ	17	575.3	Smokin J’s
18	575.4	Smokin Squealers	18	573.3	Dirt Road Smokers
19	572.5	Just Smoke N Around	19	573.3	Smoking Butts BBQ
20	571.8	Old Henry BBQ	20	571.7	Reading Smoke
21	570.9	Smoking Butts BBQ	21	571.4	Swine and Shine BBQ
22	570.8	Smokin J’s	22	566.8	Smoking the Good Stuff
23	567.2	Butt Rubb’n BBQ	23	566.5	Smokin’ 42
24	567	Dirt Road Smokers	24	565.1	Butts & Brews BBQ
25	563.4	Reading Smoke	25	563.9	Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack
26	553	Four Fathers BBQ	26	561.2	The Fat Redneck BBQ Company

	Reserve Scores
		Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	Bubba Grills	597.6	583.9	595.4	1776.9
2	Just Blowing Smoke	592.7	590.5	590.9	1774.1
3	92 BBQ	591.2	579.1	594.2	1764.5
4	TC BBQ	579.1	591.8	587.2	1758.1
5	Ponderosa BBQ	579	584.3	594.5	1757.8
6	Smokin’ 42	597.7	589.2	566.5	1753.4
7	Swine Time Grilling	582.7	586	581.1	1749.8
8	Smokin Squealers	575.4	575.4	598.8	1749.6
9	Fiddler’s BBQ	571.8	591.1	584.8	1747.7
10	H & J Cook Team	577.5	588.6	577.6	1743.7
11	Bird Dog BBQ	575.2	581.6	582.3	1739.1
12	Just Smoke N Around	577.7	572.5	588.1	1738.3
13	Hardrock Hill’s BBQ	580.7	579.1	575.6	1735.4
14	The Fat Redneck BBQ Company	587.2	586.6	561.2	1735
15	Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack	586.9	581.6	563.9	1732.4
16	Smokin J’s	585.4	570.8	575.3	1731.5
17	Squeal Team Six	570.2	579	579	1728.2
18	Swine and Shine BBQ	568.4	587.8	571.4	1727.6
19	Old Henry BBQ	571.5	571.8	582.3	1725.6
20	Reading Smoke	588.6	563.4	571.7	1723.7
21	Smoking Butts BBQ	579	570.9	573.3	1723.2
22	Butt Rubb’n BBQ	572.7	567.2	582.9	1722.8
23	Butts & Brews BBQ	579.2	577.7	565.1	1722
24	Dirt Road Smokers	571.8	567	573.3	1712.1
25	Four Fathers BBQ	570.3	553	588.2	1711.5
26	Smoking the Good Stuff	563.2	581	566.8	1711

Cooking for Fun Division
			PULLED PORK			RIBS
	1	590.9	Screaming Eagle	1	591.2	The Fat Guys
	2	586.6	The Fat Guys	2	577.8	Screaming Eagle
	3	580.3	We Want Q	3	574.8	Pig Buster BBQ
	4	579.3	CJ’s BBQ	4	568	Sweetwater Competition Smoke Out Team
	5	560.4	Pig Buster BBQ	5	566.7	We Want Q
	6	546	Sweetwater Competition Smoke Out Team	6	562.5	CJ’s BBQ

Mar 30 2014

Bubba Grills Takes Grand at Bikes, Blues & BBQ

The Georgia Barbecue Association brought competition BBQ back to Douglas, GA for the Bikes, Blues & BBQ Festival held at Douglas Gene Chambers Municipal Airport. Twenty-seven teams persevered though heavy rains and a late night wind storm to produce championship BBQ. The GBA judges really had their work cut out for them as the close scoring indicated a high level of quality pork loin, pulled pork and pork ribs made it to the tables.

Grand Champion – Bubba Grills

Reserve Grand Champion – G.A.S. Passers

The City of Douglas really rolled out the red carpet for the GBA’s cook teams, judges and officials. The plans were in place for two days of great Blues music, motorcycle shows & games, a vintage car show & about 75 food & craft vendors. Unfortunately, the weather forced cancellation of most of the events. Still, despite the weather challenges, the festival organizers held a very successful contest.

Lonnie Smith & his Bubba Grills team from Haddock, GA had the highest scoring entry of the finals round. His Ribs scored a 597.9 to earn the Grand Championship. G.A.S. Passers of Hazlehurst, finaled in Ribs along with a fourth place in Pulled Pork and sixth place in Pork Loin to win the Reserve Grand Championship.

In Pork Loin, Bubba Grills topped the field in the category. Douglas, GA’s Bethel Smokers took second place. Smoking 42 BBQ claimed third place. Mojo Smokehouse finished fourth with H & J Cooking Crew finishing in fifth. Sixth through 10th places went to: G, A.S. Passers; Dirt Road Smokers; Drive By Smokers; Smokin-AJ’s & Ricketson Construction.

Harvey & Shirley Willis of Fiddler’s BBQ won the Pulled Pork Category with Bethel Smokers once again taking second place. Another Douglas team, Ricketson Construction claimed third place. G.A.S. Passers took fourth. Only 1.6 points separated 5th through 10th places. A tie for fifth place went to the fifth tiebreaker before Triple Threat Smokers gained an edge over TC’s BBQ. Rounding out the top 10 were: Bubba Grills, Smokin AJ’s, B-Queb’d; and Smokin 42 BBQ. Hard Rock Hill BBQ missed the top 10 by just a half point.

Bubba Grill’s championship winning Rib box topped the category. G.A.S. Passers claimed second place. Third place went to Loud Pipe Grillers. 92 BBQ took fourth with Smokin’ 42 BBQ in fifth place. TC’s BBQ; Lightning Strike BBQ; Hungry Hog BBQ; Mojo Smoke House and Hurricane Cookers finished 6th through 10th places respectively

The Georgia Barbecue Association would like to thank the City of Douglas, organizing staff and the multitude of volunteers for their hospitality and a great contest. All the GBA teams & judges are looking forward to returning in 2015.

Full Results: (note: 1st, 2nd & 3rd places are final round scores. All others are from the preliminary rounds)

		LOIN			PULLED PORK
1	595.1	Bubba Grills	1	596.2	Fiddler’s BBQ
2	594.6	Bethel Smokers	2	596	Bethel Smokers
3	592.3	Smokin 42	3	588.3	Ricketson Construction
4	592.8	Mojo Smoke House	4	590.5	Gas Passers
5	591.5	H&J Cooking	5	588.8	Triple Threat Smokers
6	589.3	Gas Passers	6	588.8	TC’s BBQ
7	587.6	Dirt Road Smokers	7	588.1	Bubba Grills
8	587.5	Drive By Smokers	8	587.5	Smokin-AJ’s
9	584.7	Smokin-AJ’s	9	587.3	B-Queb’d
10	583	Ricketson Construction	10	587.2	Smokin 42
11	582.9	Triple Threat Smokers	11	586.7	Hard Rock Hill BBQ
12	582.7	Lighter’d Knot BBQ	12	586	92 BBQ
13	580.2	Loud Pipe Grillers	13	585.3	Mojo Smoke House
14	579.3	Fiddler’s BBQ	14	582.3	Hurricane Cookers
15	579.1	Hard Rock Hill BBQ	15	581.2	H&J Cooking
16	578.7	TC’s BBQ	16	580.5	Smokin J’s
17	578.1	Rub Shakers Q	17	576.6	Rub Shakers Q
18	577.5	Lightning Strike BBQ	18	576.2	Swine Time Grilling
19	576.5	Swine Time Grilling	19	575.9	Hungry Hog
20	574.7	Williams Food BBQ	20	574.7	Loud Pipe Grillers
21	573	92 BBQ	21	574.5	Lighter’d Knot BBQ
22	569.7	Hurricane Cookers	22	569.4	Southwire
23	565.5	Hungry Hog	23	567.1	Drive By Smokers
24	564.2	B-Queb’d	24	566.5	The Pickled Pigs
25	560.5	The Pickled Pigs	25	565.7	Lightning Strike BBQ
26	556.6	Smokin J’s	26	561.7	Dirt Road Smokers
27	0	Southwire	27	561.5	Williams Food BBQ

		RIBS
1	597.9	Bubba Grills
2	591.5	Gas Passers
3	588	Loud Pipe Grillers
4	593.7	92 BBQ
5	590.9	Smokin 42
6	589.4	TC’s BBQ
7	587.3	Lightning Strike BBQ
8	586.6	Hungry Hog
9	586	Mojo Smoke House
10	584.3	Hurricane Cookers
11	583	Triple Threat Smokers
12	582.7	Ricketson Construction
13	582.4	Swine Time Grilling
14	581.7	Bethel Smokers
15	580.9	Lighter’d Knot BBQ
16	580.8	Drive By Smokers
17	580.4	Williams Food BBQ
18	580	Dirt Road Smokers
19	579.6	B-Queb’d
20	578.5	Hard Rock Hill BBQ
21	575.4	Rub Shakers Q
22	573.8	Fiddler’s BBQ
23	572.9	Smokin-AJ’s
24	564.4	H&J Cooking
25	560.4	The Pickled Pigs
26	559.4	Smokin J’s
27	554.6	Southwire

	Reserve Scores
		Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	Bubba Grills	599.7	588.1	595.2	1783
2	Gas Passers	589.3	590.5	599.1	1778.9
3	Smokin 42	599.1	587.2	590.9	1777.2
4	Bethel Smokers	598.8	595.8	581.7	1776.3
5	Ricketson Construction	583	598.5	582.7	1764.2
6	Mojo Smoke House	592.8	585.3	586	1764.1
7	TC’s BBQ	578.7	588.8	589.4	1756.9
8	Triple Threat Smokers	582.9	588.81	583	1754.71
9	92 BBQ	573	586	593.7	1752.7
10	Loud Pipe Grillers	580.2	574.7	597	1751.9
11	Fiddler’s BBQ	579.3	593.9	573.8	1747
12	Smokin-AJ’s	584.7	587.5	572.9	1745.1
13	Hard Rock Hill BBQ	579.1	586.7	578.5	1744.3
14	Lighter’d Knot BBQ	582.7	574.5	580.9	1738.1
15	H&J Cooking	591.5	581.2	564.4	1737.1
16	Hurricane Cookers	569.7	582.3	584.3	1736.3
17	Drive By Smokers	587.5	567.1	580.8	1735.4
18	Swine Time Grilling	576.5	576.2	582.4	1735.1
19	B-Queb’d	564.2	587.3	579.6	1731.1
20	Lightning Strike BBQ	577.5	565.7	587.3	1730.5
21	Rub Shakers Q	578.1	576.6	575.4	1730.1
22	Dirt Road Smokers	587.6	561.7	580	1729.3
23	Hungry Hog	565.5	575.9	586.6	1728
24	Williams Food BBQ	574.7	561.5	580.4	1716.6
25	Smokin J’s	556.6	580.5	559.4	1696.5
26	The Pickled Pigs	560.5	566.5	560.4	1687.4
27	Southwire	0	569.4	554.6	1124