The winners of this year's Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest have been announced and the Grand Champion is Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q of Decatur, Al. Big Bob's also won the Kingsford Tour of Champions Award.
The Grilling Green Award went to the Olive Branch-based team, Sweet Swine O'Mine.
Below are the winners in each category:
RIBS
- Auto Be Grillin' – Memphis, TN
- Cool Smoke – Richmond, VA
- The Rack Pack – Jonesboro, AR
- Fat Side Up – Collierville, TN
- LVOB – West Memphis, AR
- Too Sauced to Pork – Germantown, TN
- Pork O Saurus – Memphis, TN
- Knob Creek Smokers – Arlington, TN
- Meat Makers – Memphis, TN
- Natural Born Grillers – Southaven, MS
SHOULDER
- Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q – Decatur, AL
- Red Hot Smokers – Olive Branch, MS
- Boarhouse Smokers – Bartlett, TN
- ASAP – St. Louis, MO
- Boardello's – Cordova, TN
- Lillie's Q – Chicago, IL
- Bare Bones BBQ – Fairlee, VT
- Rebel Roaster Revue (R3Que) – Oxford, MS
- 901Q – Arlington, TN
- Pig Stars – Arlington, TN
WHOLE HOG
- Yazoo's Delta Q – Hernando, MS
- British Bulldog BBQ – Farnham, Surrey
- Cotton Pickin Porkers – Memphis, TN
- 10 Bones BBQ – Hernando, MS
- The Shed BBQ Joint – Ocean Springs, MS
- Dixie Que – Macon, GA
- Will-Be-Que BBQ Team – Cordova, TN
- Victory Lane BBQ LLC – Memphis, TN
- Jacks Old South – Unadilla, GA
- Whole Hog Café – Little Rock, AR
PATIO PORKERS –
- Moonlight Smokers – Shaw, MS
- The More You Drink the Better It Taste – Indianola, MS
- The Bastey Boys – Plymouth, MA
- Dirty Hogs – Southaven, MS
- Hog Heaven – Cincinnati, OH
- Here For The Beer – Little Rock, AR
- Uncle Murle's BBQ – Memphis, TN
- B-QUEB'D – Atlanta, GA
- Boars R Us BBQ Team – Cordova, TN
- Prairie Porkers – Carlisle, AR