Tag: Fiddler’s BBQ

Feb 02 2014

Bethel Smokers Takes Grand at Jekyll Island BBQ Beach Bash

Grand Champion – Bethel Smokers

The Georgia Barbecue Association traveled to Jekyll Island, GA for the first contest of 2014. The Brunswick Lions Club hosted the event & the Golden Isles turned out in record numberst. At one point Saturday, traffic was backed up for miles on the causeway leading to the beach front contest & festival site.

Mr Joe Wright, Pitmaster of Bethel Smokers, made finals in both Pork & Ribs, but it was his final round Pork entry that scored a 599 out of a possible 600 points that got the last call of the day. Inside sources tell us that the secret to the team’s success is all in the shoes.

Reserve Grand Champions – Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack

Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack came to Jekyll Island short handed, but Clint & Mandy Britton were up to the challenge. The husband & wife team made finals in Loin along with fifty place finishes in both Pork & Ribs to capture the Reserve Grand Championship.

First Place Loin – 29 Barbecue

In Pork Loin, 29 Barbecue, cooking in their first GBA contest, grabbed first place honors. Legal Smoke took second place with Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack in third. Smoke Risin’ BBQ Joint came in fourth with Fiddler’s BBQ in fifth place.

Bethel Smokers topped the field in the Pulled Pork category. Dixie Que was the runner up. Old Henry’s BBQ made finals for the first time in a GBA contest & took home third place. There was a tie for fourth place between 29 Barbecue and Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack. It went to the 4th level before 29 Barbecue won the tiebreaker.

Smoke Risin’ BBQ Joint from Blackshear had the best Ribs entry of the day. Legal Smoke BBQ took second place. Bethel Smokers captured third with Fiddler’s BBQ taking fourth place. Sauced Hogs Smoke Shack finished in fifth place just a half point ahead of Naked Dave’s BBQ.

The Georgia Barbecue Association would like to congratulate the Brunswick Lions club on a very successful contest and are looking forward to returning to the islands next year. The GBA heads to Tifton, GA for the first time for Rhythm & Ribs Festival on Feb 28 – March 1.

Full Results:

Note: the top 3 scores in each category are final round scores. 4th place scores & down are from preliminary rounds.

		LOIN
1	594.2	29 BARBEQUE
2	592.8	LEGAL SMOKE
3	590.8	SAUCED HOGS SMOKE SHACK
4	588.2	SMOKE RISIN’
5	587.2	FIDDLERS BBQ
6	584.9	BARE BONES BBQ
7	582.6	SMOKIN 42 BBQ
8	580	H&J BBQ
9	579.7	PAMPERED PIG BBQ
10	579	JUST PIG OUT BARBEQUE
11	577	TC’S BBQ
12	576.7	SWINE TIME GRILLING TEAM
13	576.5	OLD HENRY BBQ
14	575.7	R KAE BBQ
15	573.7	HURRICANE COOKERS
16	572.6	BLACK DOG BBQ
17	571.4	NAKED DAVES
18	569.4	RUB SHAKERS QUE
19	568.1	92 BBQ
20	566.8	DIXIE QUE
21	564.7	HUNGRY HOG BBQ
22	562.1	BETHEL SMOKERS
23	557	SMOKING J’S
24	548.7	SMOKE MEAT MILITIA

		PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	599	BETHEL SMOKERS	1	594.1	SMOKE RISIN’
2	594.4	DIXIE QUE	2	593.2	LEGAL SMOKE BBQ
3	574.7	OLD HENRYS BBQ	3	585.9	BETHEL SMOKERS
4	593.3	29 BARBEQUE	4	591.2	FIDDLERS BBQ
5	593.3	SAUCED HOGS SMOKE SHACK	5	590.2	SAUCED HOGS SMOKE SHACK
6	591.2	SMOKIN 42 BBQ	6	589.7	NAKED DAVES
7	590.8	JUST PIG OUT BARBEQUE	7	589.1	HUNGRY HOG BBQ
8	587.6	92 BBQ	8	587.3	RUB SHAKERS QUE
9	586.3	PAMPERED PIG BBQ	9	586.9	JUST PIG OUT BARBEQUE
10	586.2	HURRICANE COOKERS	10	586	PAMPERED PIG BBQ
11	584.2	FIDDLERS BBQ	11	585.6	R KAE BBQ
12	583.6	H&J BBQ	12	584.6	DIXIE QUE
13	583.6	SMOKE RISIN’	13	582.6	H&J BBQ
14	579.8	LEGAL SMOKE BBQ	14	580	SMOKIN 42 BBQ
15	579.5	HUNGRY HOG BBQ	15	578.7	HURRICANE COOKERS
16	578.7	NAKED DAVES	16	578.1	SWINE TIME GRILLING TEAM
17	578.4	SWINE TIME GRILLING TEAM	17	572.7	BLACK DOG BBQ
18	577.7	RUB SHAKERS QUE	18	570.9	SMOKE MEAT MILITIA
19	574.7	BARE BONES BBQ	19	567.9	SMOKING J’S
20	574.4	SMOKE MEAT MILITIA	20	567.3	29 BARBEQUE
21	571.3	TC’S BBQ	21	564.8	TC’S BBQ
22	570.6	R KAE BBQ	22	562.7	92 BBQ
23	565.4	SMOKING J’S	23	560.2	OLD HENRY BBQ
24	560	BLACK DOG BBQ	24	553.1	BARE BONES BBQ

	Reserve Scores
		Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	SAUCED HOGS SMOKE SHACK	596.1	593.3	590.2	1779.6
2	LEGAL SMOKE BBQ	596.1	579.8	599.1	1775
3	SMOKE RISIN’	588.2	583.6	593.7	1765.5
4	FIDDLERS BBQ	587.2	584.2	591.2	1762.6
5	JUST PIG OUT BARBEQUE	579	590.8	586.9	1756.7
6	29 BARBEQUE	594.8	593.3	567.3	1755.4
7	BETHEL SMOKERS	562.1	596.1	596.7	1754.9
8	SMOKIN 42 BBQ	582.6	591.2	580	1753.8
9	PAMPERED PIG BBQ	579.7	586.3	586	1752
10	H&J BBQ	580	583.6	582.6	1746.2
11	DIXIE QUE	566.8	594.2	584.6	1745.6
12	NAKED DAVES	571.4	578.7	589.7	1739.8
13	HURRICANE COOKERS	573.7	586.2	578.7	1738.6
14	RUB SHAKERS QUE	569.4	577.7	587.3	1734.4
15	HUNGRY HOG BBQ	564.7	579.5	589.1	1733.3
16	SWINE TIME GRILLING TEAM	576.7	578.4	578.1	1733.2
17	R KAE BBQ	575.7	570.6	585.6	1731.9
18	OLD HENRY BBQ	576.5	594.2	560.2	1730.9
19	92 BBQ	568.1	587.6	562.7	1718.4
20	TC’S BBQ	577	571.3	564.8	1713.1
21	BARE BONES BBQ	584.9	574.7	553.1	1712.7
22	BLACK DOG BBQ	572.6	560	572.7	1705.3
23	SMOKE MEAT MILITIA	548.7	574.4	570.9	1694
24	SMOKING J’S	557	565.4	567.9	1690.3

Nov 11 2013

Fiddler’s BBQ Wins First GBA Grand in Richland

Fiddler’s BBQ Wins First GBA Grand in Richland

Grand Champion – Fiddler’s BBQ

The Fiddler’s BBQ team of Harvey and Shirley Willis from Cusseta, GA didn’t have far to travel to compete in the Pig Fest CharBroil Challenge in Richland. The short trip was a memorable one for the couple as they won their first Grand Championship on the GBA competition trail. Fiddler’s BBQ Pork Loin entry in the finals round was just 0.3 off a perfect 600 score. It took every tenth of a point as Bethel Smoker’s finals rib box was just a tick behind with a score of 599.4.

Reserve Grand Champion – Bethel Smokers

Mr Joe Wright, pitmaster for Bethel Smokers, made finals in both ribs and pulled pork. Bethel was the only team in the contest that made finals in more than one category. The two top 3 preliminary round finishes along with 7th place in loin, gave the team from Douglas the highest cumulative score in the preliminary rounds and the Reserve Grand Championship.

Fiddler’s BBQ 599.7 score topped the Loin category. H & J Cooking Team came in second place with ET’s BBQ finishing in third. Lightning Strike BBQ tied for third place in the preliminary round, but fell on the 4th level of the tiebreaker to finish 4th. Holy Smoke, LLC claimed 5th place. ET’s BBQ scored a perfect 600 in the Loin preliminary round.

First Place Pulled Pork – Cooking with Sump

Cooking with Stump topped the field in the Pulled Pork category. Bethel Smokers took 2nd place. Smokin’ 42 BBQ of Tifton came in 3rd place. Fourth place went to ET’s BBQ. Fiddler’s BBQ took home 5th place just 0.3 of a point ahead of Swine Time Grillin’ Team. Just another 0.3 of a point back in 7th place was Lyles BBQ Company.

First place in Ribs went to Bethel Smokers with 92 BBQ as runnerup. Smokin’ J’s, cooking in their first GBA contest, took third place. Just Smokin’ Around BBQ took the 4th spot and Holy Smoke, LLC rounded out the top 5.

The Richland contest also held a backyard contest with 13 teams competing. Wicked Lickin’ BBQ Crew, led by 14 year old pitmaster Kason Gray, won the Grand Championship with 2nd place finishes in both Pulled Pork and Ribs, a 3rd place finish in Chicken and 1st place in From the Water with a perfect 600 score. Other category winners in the backyard division were:

Chicken: The Country Boy Cookers
Pulled Pork: Big Racks’ BBQ Cooking Team
Ribs: Bar B Que Bandits

The Georgia Barbecue Association was proud to once again be a part of this long running BBQ competition and festival. The next stop on the GBA trail will be in Moultrie as the GBA will sanction for the first time the Moultrie Moose Lodge 1158 Annual BBQ Cookoff on December 6-7.

Full Results:

		LOIN			PULLED PORK
1	599.7	Fiddlers BBQ	1	598.8	Cooking With Stump
2	598.2	H & J Cooking Team	2	598.5	Bethel Smokers
3	597.6	E.T. ‘s BBQ	3	598.2	Smok’n 42 BBQ
4	591.5	Lightening Strike BBQ	4	591.5	E.T. ‘s BBQ
5	589.9	Holy Smoke, LLC	5	589	Fiddlers BBQ
6	588.3	Smok’n 42 BBQ	6	586.6	Swine Time Grill’n Team
7	587.8	Bethel Smokers	7	586.3	Lyles BBQ Company
8	584	Cooking With Stump	8	585.7	Just Smok “N” Around BBQ
9	583.3	Drive By Smoker’s	9	584.8	92 BBQ
10	582.8	Just Smok “N” Around BBQ	10	583.5	Drive By Smoker’s
11	579.4	92 BBQ	11	583.4	Holy Smoke, LLC
12	577.7	Jethro’s Cooking Crew	12	582.9	TC’s BBQ
13	577	TC’s BBQ	13	581	Old Henry’s BBQ
14	576.5	Lick’em Lips BBQ	14	578.3	Jethro’s Cooking Crew
15	572.7	Swine Time Grill’n Team	15	576.4	Smokin J’s
16	570.4	Lyles BBQ Company	16	568.7	Lightening Strike BBQ
17	570.2	Old Henry’s BBQ	17	566.5	H & J Cooking Team
18	568.1	Smokin J’s	18	564.9	Lick’em Lips BBQ

		RIBS
1	599.4	Bethel Smokers
2	598.8	92 BBQ
3	597.3	Smokin J’s
4	588.8	Just Smok “N” Around BBQ
5	588.2	Holy Smoke, LLC
6	586.9	Cooking With Stump
7	586.6	Fiddlers BBQ
8	586.6	Jethro’s Cooking Crew
9	583.6	Old Henry’s BBQ
10	583.2	Swine Time Grill’n Team
11	580	H & J Cooking Team
12	578.8	Lyles BBQ Company
13	575.4	Lightening Strike BBQ
14	575.1	Drive By Smoker’s
15	575.1	TC’s BBQ
16	569.7	E.T. ‘s BBQ
17	568.5	Smok’n 42 BBQ
18	567.1	Lick’em Lips BBQ

	Reserve Scores
		Ribs	Pulled	Loin	Total
1	Bethel Smokers	591.5	592.1	587.8	1771.4
2	Fiddlers BBQ	586.6	589	592.5	1768.1
3	Cooking With Stump	586.9	595.1	584	1766
4	92 BBQ	599.1	584.8	579.4	1763.3
5	Holy Smoke, LLC	588.2	583.4	589.9	1761.5
6	E.T. ‘s BBQ	569.7	591.5	600	1761.2
7	Just Smok “N” Around BBQ	588.8	585.7	582.8	1757.3
8	Smok’n 42 BBQ	568.5	599.1	588.3	1755.9
9	Jethro’s Cooking Crew	586.6	578.3	577.7	1742.6
10	Swine Time Grill’n Team	583.2	586.6	572.7	1742.5
11	Drive By Smoker’s	575.1	583.5	583.3	1741.9
12	H & J Cooking Team	580	566.5	591.5	1738
13	Lightening Strike BBQ	575.4	568.7	591.5	1735.6
14	Lyles BBQ Company	578.8	586.3	570.4	1735.5
15	TC’s BBQ	575.1	582.9	577	1735
16	Old Henry’s BBQ	583.6	581	570.2	1734.8
17	Smokin J’s	589.5	576.4	568.1	1734
18	Lick’em Lips BBQ	567.1	564.9	576.5	1708.5

Sep 22 2013

Smokin 42 BBQ Walks Last at Sumner

Smokin 42 BBQ Walks Last at Sumner

Grand Champion – Smokin 42 BBQ

The Georgia Barbecue Association was once again a part of the Sumner Egg Festival with the 3rd annual BBQ Blast. While Sumner may be a small town, there is always BIG fun at the festival. The city always rolls out the red carpet for the GBA cook teams, judges & officials.

Smokin 42 BBQ, from nearby Tifton, made sure no other GBA team walked after them in their own backyard with a near perfect (599.7) score in the Loin Finals to get the last call at the Sumner Egg Fest BBQ Blast. The Grand Championship call capped a dominating performance as the “Black Train” also won the Pork category and placed 4th in Ribs.

Reserve Grand Champion – Phoebe Worth Rib Ticklers

Phoebe Worth Rib Ticklers made finals in both Pork and Ribs along with a 4th place finish in Loin to claim the Reserve Grand Championship.

Not only was Smokin 42 BBQ just one tick off a perfect score with their Loin finals box, they tallied an identical near perfect score with their preliminary Loin entry. 92 BBQ in just their second GBA contest finished second in the challenging Loin category. Fiddler’s BBQ took third place with Phoebe Worth Rib Ticklers in fourth place. Cooking with Stump claimed 5th place by 0.3 of a point over Smokin AJs’

Smokin 42 took home their second first place trophy of the day in the Pork Category. Phoebe Worth Rib Ticklers was the runner-up. Bubba Grills claimed third place. Smokin AJs got the call for fourth place with 92 BBQ in fifth place. Lightning Strike BBQ finished in the money at sixth place.

Bubba Grills had the best Rib entry of the day. Phoebe Worth Rib Ticklers once again as the runner-up and Lightning Strike BBQ rounded out the top three. Smokin 42 BBQ came in fourth place. Cooking with Stump took fifth place with Fiddler’s BBQ taking home sixth place.

Full Results

		LOIN			PULLED PORK
1	599.7	SMOKIN 42 BBQ	1	599.1	SMOKIN 42 BBQ
2	586.2	92 BBQ	2	591.8	PHOEBE WORTH RIB TICKLERS
3	584.2	FIDDLERS BBQ	3	590.9	BUBBA GRILLS
4	586.6	PHOEBE WORTH RIB TICKLERS	4	588.1	SMOKIN AJS
5	583.2	COOKING WITH STUMP	5	587.3	92 BBQ
6	582.9	SMOKIN AJS	6	585.9	LIGHTENING STRIKE
*7	578.7	BUBBA GRILLS	7	583.9	SWINE TIME
*8	578.7	SWINE TIME	8	582.7	COOKING WITH STUMP
9	572.6	LIGHTENING STRIKE	9	581.3	DRIVE BY SMOKERS
10	569.6	DRIVE BY SMOKERS	10	578.6	FIDDLERS BBQ
11	565.1	ALL AMERICAN SMOKERS	11	574.4	H & J BBQ
12	563.8	H & J BBQ	12	572.3	ALL AMERICAN SMOKERS

		RIBS
1	595.1	BUBBA GRILLS
2	589.8	PHOEBE WORTH RIB TICKLERS
3	586.6	LIGHTENING STRIKE
4	591.2	SMOKIN 42 BBQ
5	588.5	COOKING WITH STUMP
6	586.8	FIDDLERS BBQ
7	586.3	92 BBQ
8	582.7	SMOKIN AJS
9	577.7	SWINE TIME
10	577	DRIVE BY SMOKERS
11	573	H & J BBQ
12	572.4	ALL AMERICAN SMOKERS

	Reserve Scores
		Ribs	Pulled	Loin	Total
1	SMOKIN 42 BBQ	591.2	589.9	599.7	1780.8
2	PHOEBE WORTH RIB TICKLERS	593.1	594.9	586.6	1774.6
3	92 BBQ	586.3	587.3	596.7	1770.3
4	FIDDLERS BBQ	586.8	578.6	599.4	1764.8
5	BUBBA GRILLS	591.6	590.9	578.7	1761.2
6	COOKING WITH STUMP	588.5	582.7	583.2	1754.4
7	SMOKIN AJS	582.7	588.1	582.9	1753.7
8	LIGHTENING STRIKE	594.5	585.9	572.6	1753
9	SWINE TIME	577.7	583.9	578.7	1740.3
10	DRIVE BY SMOKERS	577	581.3	569.6	1727.9
11	H & J BBQ	573	574.4	563.8	1711.2
12	ALL AMERICAN SMOKERS	572.4	572.3	565.1	1709.8

Nov 12 2012

Bethel Smokers Tops the Field at Richland Pig Fest

Bethel Smokers Tops the Field at Richland Pig Fest

Grand Champion – Bethel Smokers

Richland — Mr. Joe Wright, pitmaster for Bethel Smokers, got the last call in a GBA contest for the year 2012 and claimed the Grand Championship at the Richland Pig Fest. Bethel’s score of 592.7 in the Pulled Pork finals was the highest score among the finalists.

Bubba Grills with pitmaster Lonnie Smith, took home the Reserve Grand Championship by finishing in the top 4 in all three categories. Bethel Smokers made finals in all three categories and compiled the highest cumulative score, but due to winning the Grand Championship the Reserve Grand award was passed down to Bubba Grills.

Reserve Grand Champion – Bubba Grills

Cooking in their first GBA contest, SWT BBQ scored an impressive win the the always difficult Pork Loin category. Bubba Grills and Bethel Smokers finished second and third respectively. Fiddlers BBQ claimed 4th place with L J Smokin’ in fifth.

Bethel Smokers top score in Pulled Pork was followed by Quenut in second place. Third place went to Smokin’ 42 BBQ and Bubba Grills took fourth. Drive By Smokers claimed fifth place just 0.1 ahead of Anarque.

Bubba Grills turned in the best Ribs of the day. L J Smoking , 2nd, and Bethel Smokers, 3rd, rounded out the top three. Double D Cooking Team edged out Drive By Smoker for 4th place by 0.3.

	Richland Pigfest
	November 10, 2012
	*Finals Round Scores

		RIBS			PULLED PORK			PORK LOIN
*1	592.1	Bubba Grills	*1	592.7	Bethel Smokers	*1	591.8	SWT BBQ
*2	581.2	LJ Smokin	*2	581.2	Quenut BBQ	*2	581.2	Bubba Grills
*3	577.2	Bethel Smokers	*3	573.6	Smokin’ 42 BBQ	*3	580.5	Bethel Smokers
4	587.6	Double D Cooking Team	4	587.9	Bubba Grills	4	588	Fiddler’s Barbecue
5	587.3	Drive-By Smokers	5	587.6	Drive-By Smokers	5	586.4	LJ Smokin
6	585.7	SWT BBQ	6	587.5	Anar-Que	6	585.2	Jethro’s Cooking Crew
7	585.5	Jethro’s Cooking Crew	7	586.9	LJ Smokin	7	582.9	Smolin’ 42 BBQ
8	579.7	Old Henry’s BBQ	8	585.7	SWT BBQ	8	582	Big D’s Fire House Smokers
9	578.7	Quenut BBQ	9	583.3	Jethro’s Cooking Crew	9	579.4	Anar-Que
10	578.1	Fiddler’s Barbecue	10	582.6	Big D’s Fire House Smokers	10	577.3	Smokin Grill BBQ
11	577	Anar-Que	11	580.1	Lil’ Jack’s Shack	11	570	Lil’ Jack’s Shack
12	575.1	Lil’ Jack’s Shack	12	576.8	Old Henry’s BBQ	12	568	Old Henry’s BBQ
13	571.5	Smokin’ 42 BBQ	13	574.5	Double D Cooking Team	13	564.7	Double D Cooking Team
14	568.2	Royal Porkers	14	569.3	Fiddler’s Barbecue	14	559.9	Lickem Lips BBQ
15	563.9	Big D’s Fire House Smokers	15	560.8	Smokin Grill BBQ	15	558.7	Drive-By Smokers
16	561.8	Smokin Grill BBQ	16	560	Lickem Lips BBQ	16	0	Royal Porkers
17	554.5	Lickem Lips BBQ	17	558.9	Royal Porkers	17	0	Quenut BBQ

	Reserve Scores
		Ribs	Pulled	Loin	Total
1	Bethel Smokers	595.8	589.9	592.1	1777.8
2	Bubba Grills	591.5	587.9	594.2	1773.6
3	SWT BBQ	585.7	585.7	599.4	1770.8
4	LJ Smokin	591.2	586.9	586.4	1764.5
5	Jethro’s Cooking Crew	585.5	583.3	585.2	1754
6	Smokin’ 42 BBQ	571.5	591.2	582.9	1745.6
7	Anar-Que	577	587.5	579.4	1743.9
8	Fiddler’s Barbecue	578.1	569.3	588	1735.4
9	Drive-By Smokers	587.3	587.6	558.7	1733.6
10	Big D’s Fire House Smokers	563.9	582.6	582	1728.5
11	Double D Cooking Team	587.6	574.5	564.7	1726.8
12	Lil’ Jack’s Shack	575.1	580.1	570	1725.2
13	Old Henry’s BBQ	579.7	576.8	568	1724.5
14	Smokin Grill BBQ	561.8	560.8	577.3	1699.9
15	Lickem Lips BBQ	554.5	560	559.9	1674.4
16	Quenut BBQ	578.7	592.8	0	1171.5
17	Royal Porkers	568.2	558.9	0	1127.1