Tag: Real South BBQ

May 03 2015

Smokin 42 BBQ Rules at Three Rivers Festival

After battling the elements over the past few contests, the teams of the Georgia Barbecue Association (GBA) found picture perfect weather for the Three Rivers Festival at Towns Bluff Park. The teams responded by turning in outstanding BBQ. A common theme among the judges was how tough it was to pick a favorite among so many great entries. In the end, it was the Finals round Pulled Pork entry turned in by Smokin’ 42 BBQ of Tifton that got the last call of the day as Grand Champion.

Grand Champion – Smokin’ 42 BBQ

CaJenn Smokin’ Que of Hoboken had the highest cumulative score across all three categories in the preliminary rounds to take the Reserve Champion award.

Reserve Champion – CaJenn Smokin’ Que

1st Loin – Bethel Smokers

Bethel Smokers of Douglas captured the first place award in Pork Loin. CaJenn Smokin’ Que edge out Just Blowing Smoke of Canton for second place by 0.3 of a point. LawDawg BBQ from Brunswick took third place. Just Smoke N Around of Jackson took 5th place by 1/10th of a point over Smokin’ 42 BBQ, Seventh place went to Lizzy Lou of Middleburg, FL. Swainsboro’s Real South BBQ came in 8th place in Pork Loin with 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers of Griffin in 9th place and H & J Cooking Team of Vienna in 10th place

First place in Pulled Pork went to Smokin’ 42 BBQ with 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers as the runner-up. Dobey Q of Buena Vista captured 3rd place. Just Smoke N Around captured 4th place and Real South BBQ captured 5th place. Just 7/10th of a point separated 6th place from 9th place. in 6th place, it was LawDawg BBQ just ahead of Bubba Grills of Haddock in 7th place with Buffalo Chip BBQ of Hazlehurst taking 8th place and Mojo Smokehouse of Willcoochee taking 9th place. CaJenn Smokin’ Que rounded out the top 10 in Pulled Pork.

1st Ribs – Bubba Grills

Bubba Grills topped the Ribs category. Dobey Q took 2nd with Just Blowing Smoke taking 3rd place. CaJenn Smokin’ Que walked for the 4th place award with Buffalo Chip BBQ in 5th place. Real South BBQ grabbed 6th place and Smokin’ J’s of Dallas, GA grabbe 7th place. The 8th place call went out to Bethel Smokers. 92 BBQ/Assassin Smokers finished in 9th place in Ribs with Smokin’ 42 BBQ taking 10th place.

The GBA wants to thank the staff at Towns Bluff Park for hosting the contest at one of the best venue’s on our circuit. Thanks also to the Hazlehurst-Jeff Davis Co. Board of Tourism for organizing the contest. The GBA heads north to Acworth for Smoke on the Lake on May 8-9 then to Lake Walter F George in Fort Gaines for the White Oak Pastures BBQ Challenge on May 22-23. For more information about the Georgia Barbecue Association, visit our website at www.bbqga.org.

Full Results (note: scores for 1st, 2nd & 3rd places are final round scores. Scores from 4th place & down are preliminary round scores)

		LOIN			PULLED PORK			RIBS
1	596.3	BETHEL SMOKERS	1	596.9	SMOKIN 42 BBQ	1	595	BUBBA GRILLS
2	593	CAJENN SMOKIN QUE	2	593.8	92 BBQ	2	593.6	DOBEY Q
3	592.7	JUST BLOWING SMOKE	3	591.3	DOBEY Q	3	593.4	JUST BLOWING SMOKE
4	591.8	LAWDAWG BBQ	4	589.3	JUST SMOKE N AROUND	4	591.1	CAJENN SMOKIN QUE
5	591.3	JUST SMOKE N AROUND	5	588.5	REAL SOUTH BBQ	5	587.5	BUFFALO CHIP BBQ
6	591.2	SMOKIN 42 BBQ	6	586.9	LAWDAWG BBQ	6	587.3	REAL SOUTH BBQ
7	587.2	LIZZY LOU	7	586.6	BUBBA GRILLS	7	587	SMOKIN J’S
8	587	REAL SOUTH BBQ	8	586.3	BUFFALO CHIP BBQ	8	583.6	BETHEL SMOKERS
9	586.6	92 BBQ	9	586.2	MOJO SMOKEHOUSE	9	581.7	92 BBQ
10	586.2	H&J COOKING TEAM	10	584.2	CAJENN SMOKIN QUE	10	580.6	SMOKIN 42 BBQ
11	585.9	SMOKIN J’S	11	583.9	H&J COOKING TEAM	11	579.4	H&J COOKING TEAM
12	580	BUFFALO CHIP BBQ	12	579.7	SMOKIN J’S	12	579	LAWDAWG BBQ
13	579	RAGING SMOKE BBQ	13	575.7	RAGING SMOKE BBQ	13	578.7	OLD HENRY BBQ
14	576.6	DOBEY Q	14	574.4	LIZZY LOU	14	576.1	MOJO SMOKEHOUSE
15	571.7	BUBBA GRILLS	15	571.7	BETHEL SMOKERS	15	575.1	RAGING SMOKE BBQ
16	571.4	OLD HENRY BBQ	16	570.5	JUST BLOWING SMOKE	16	574	LIZZY LOU
17	556.7	MOJO SMOKEHOUSE	17	558.9	OLD HENRY BBQ	17	560.5	JUST SMOKE N AROUND

	Reserve Champion Scores	Loin	Pulled	Ribs	Total
1	CAJENN SMOKIN QUE	596.1	584.2	591.1	1771.4
2	SMOKIN 42 BBQ	591.2	594.2	580.6	1766
3	DOBEY Q	576.6	591.1	598.2	1765.9
4	REAL SOUTH BBQ	587	588.5	587.3	1762.8
5	92 BBQ	586.6	590.8	581.7	1759.1
6	LAWDAWG BBQ	591.8	586.9	579	1757.7
7	JUST BLOWING SMOKE	593.6	570.5	592.1	1756.2
8	BUBBA GRILLS	571.7	586.6	596.4	1754.7
9	BUFFALO CHIP BBQ	580	586.3	587.5	1753.8
10	SMOKIN J’S	585.9	579.7	587	1752.6
11	BETHEL SMOKERS	594.5	571.7	583.6	1749.8
12	H&J COOKING TEAM	586.2	583.9	579.4	1749.5
13	JUST SMOKE N AROUND	591.3	589.3	560.5	1741.1
14	LIZZY LOU	587.2	574.4	574	1735.6
15	RAGING SMOKE BBQ	579	575.7	575.1	1729.8
16	MOJO SMOKEHOUSE	556.7	586.2	576.1	1719
17	OLD HENRY BBQ	571.4	558.9	578.7	1709

Apr 19 2015

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

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 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