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2025 Event Schedule

Friday, September 26, 2025
9:00am - Check in opens
1:00pm-5:00pm - Boxes available for pick-up at Town Hall
5:00pm - Mandatory Cooks Meeting
6:00pm-10:00pm - Shawnee Great Grillers Opens to the Public
People's Choice
Band
Food Truck
Beer Tent (sponsored by the Shawnee Irish American Club)
Kids Fun Zone

Saturday, September 27, 2025
11:00am - 1:00pm - Sanctioned Judging, event is closed to the public

3:30pm -  Awards Ceremony

2025 Turn In Times

Saturday, September 27, 2025
12:00am - Chicken Turn In
12:30pm - Pork Ribs Turn In
1:00pm - Pork Shoulder Turn In
1:30pm - Brisket Turn In
2:00pm - Sausage Turn In

2025 Event Map

Coming soon!

2024 Winners Grill

2024 Shawnee Great Grillers Grand Champion: Mad Mutt's BBQ
 
2024 Shawnee Great Grillers Reserve Grand Champion: Slaps BBQ

 

2024 Chicken
1.Mad Mutt's BBQ (Perfect Score!)
2. Velvet Swine
3. Keep Calm and Sauce On
4. Slaps BBQ
5. Smoke on Wheels
6. In Deep Sauce
7. Jurassic Pork
8. Barking Dog BBQ
9. Brew 'N' Bar-B-Que
10. 913 BBQ

2024 Brisket
1. Stewey Magoos BBQ (Perfect Score!)
2. Smokin' Beaver BBQ
3. In Deep Sauce
4. 913 BBQ
5. Mad Mutt's BBQ
6. Love 2 Q
7. Smoke on Wheels
8. Smokey Bey's Barbecue
9. Brew 'N' Bar-B-Que
10. Pine Tar BBQ

2024 Pork Ribs
1. Slaps BBQ
2. Cow Creek BBQ
3. Aww Shucks
4. Broken Bottle
5. Smokey Bey's Barbeque
6. Mad Mutt's BBQ
7. Love 2 Q
8. 913 BBQ
9. Hoggy Style BBQ
10. Three Brothers Different Mothers

2024 Sausage
1. Sky Blue Thighs
2. Smoke on Wheels
3. Smokey Mountain Boys
4. S M F
5. T's Smokin Pit
6. Sloppy Seconds
7. Grilligans Island
8. IHC BBQ
9. Love 2 Q
10. Hoggy Style BBQ

2024 Pork
1. KC Smoke Dawgs
2. Aww Shucks
3. Big Fork
4. Rub Me Tender Rub Me Sweet
5. Hoggy Style BBQ
6. Three Brothers Different Mothers
7. Slaps BBQ
8. IHC BBQ
9. Sky Blue Thights
10. Smokey Bey's Barbecue

2023 Chef's Choice
1. Ultimate Flippin Grillers
2. Mad Mutt's BBQ
3. Why Not Smoke

Auxiliary Contests

Cooks can choose to join two auxiliary contest in addition the four sanctioned KCBS competitions. 

  • Sausage: KCBS rules apply. Turn it is on Saturday at 2:00pm.
  • People's Choice: NEW THIS YEAR! Teams will be asked to turn in pork (this does not have to be cooked on site). Turn in will be Friday evening. Public judging will take place from 6:00-8:00pm.