sudsandswine
Quintessential Chatty Farker
- Joined
- Jun 23, 2012
- Location
- Kansas City
I participated in my first KCBS competition last weekend. My team placed 24th out of 76 teams, which I was pretty happy with (score of 671.3488 ). I didn't really go in with any expectations because this competition drew a lot of the top teams in the area, but I thought if I could finish in the top half that'd be pretty good. Especially considering the crazy weather that rolled through in the evening and overnight. Cooking in your driveway under perfect conditions doesn't exactly prepare you for worst case conditions as it turns out.
I didn't stick around for the awards ceremony so I just got my individual judging scores in the mail today. I thought the judges were pretty fair, having seen and tasted the food - if anything, they may have been a bit high in my opinion. These definitely weren't the best boxes I'd done, but I was happy with them all things considered.
Once I saw the actual scores from each judge for each category, it kind of made me realize how consistently you have to score 9's across the board to get a high enough score to walk. For example, in pork I had three 999's, and that was my highest category finishing 12th. The one 7 rating for tenderness probably tanked that score a bit. One of my money muscles was a shade on the overdone side, and it's possible they got a chunk that wasn't up to par...I'm sure it was a valid 7. I was seriously unhappy with my brisket, I turned in sliced flat from a SRF black brisket, and that thing never puckered up so the slices were really skinny...almost like fajita slices, and the flat tightened back up on me so the texture was way off. Yet I still got a #30 on that one? :crazy:
Anyhow, here's a few pics I snapped of my boxes. I didn't take a pic of the brisket because I hated it that much. :caked:
I had a good time, and some fellow brethren placed real well, so I look forward to doing more next year.
Chicken - 25th
Ribs - 26th
Pork - 12th
Brisket - 30th
I didn't stick around for the awards ceremony so I just got my individual judging scores in the mail today. I thought the judges were pretty fair, having seen and tasted the food - if anything, they may have been a bit high in my opinion. These definitely weren't the best boxes I'd done, but I was happy with them all things considered.
Once I saw the actual scores from each judge for each category, it kind of made me realize how consistently you have to score 9's across the board to get a high enough score to walk. For example, in pork I had three 999's, and that was my highest category finishing 12th. The one 7 rating for tenderness probably tanked that score a bit. One of my money muscles was a shade on the overdone side, and it's possible they got a chunk that wasn't up to par...I'm sure it was a valid 7. I was seriously unhappy with my brisket, I turned in sliced flat from a SRF black brisket, and that thing never puckered up so the slices were really skinny...almost like fajita slices, and the flat tightened back up on me so the texture was way off. Yet I still got a #30 on that one? :crazy:
Anyhow, here's a few pics I snapped of my boxes. I didn't take a pic of the brisket because I hated it that much. :caked:
I had a good time, and some fellow brethren placed real well, so I look forward to doing more next year.
Chicken - 25th
Ribs - 26th
Pork - 12th
Brisket - 30th
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