Paddy McQ's

13/10/2025

Touched down at a wet and windy base at 10.54pm EST last night after the quick 1150-mile ride home from The Jack.
This event never gets old, and one can only hope that we make it back again sometime.

While we had no calls, we felt like we represented well and were proud to finish 21st out of 90 Grand Champions invited to the event.
Congratulations to on an excellent cook and Grand Championship and to our good friends at for Reserve Grand (I think it was the lucky bag of candy 😊) Beyond Happy for them!! And also, Congrats on the Perfect Perfect 180 in Brisket!!
To our fellow teams from the northeast and , congrats on your calls and representing!
And congrats to everyone else who heard their names!

Overall Scores (90 Teams)
Chicken:30th
Ribs: 23rd
Pork: 48th
Brisket: 36th
Overall: 21st

Sauce: 84th
Dessert: 36th

To my friends Matt and Lisa Rooks, am indebted to you for coming by and running the boxes, and to Lisa for helping convert the image in my head for finishing the dessert.

Time to go back out in the wind and rain and clean-up!

09/10/2025

And just like that, the butterflies return....

08/10/2025

Finally.....

07/10/2025

And so it begins, the one mile journey repeated 1142 times. Safe travels to all!

15/09/2025

15/09/2025

Back and nearly cleaned up from the Campground BBQ Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown at in Southwick, MA

While the fields were small (16 Teams both days), the competition was fierce!
After the results were tallied:
Saturday:
Chicken: 6th
Ribs: 10th
Pork: 2nd
Brisket: 5th
to finish 4th overall with a 698+
Congrats to out good friends on GC and on RGC and both their 700+ scores

Turned around and did it all over again
Sunday:
Chicken:3rd
Ribs:2nd
Pork:6th
Brisket:4th.
to finish overall Grand Champion with a 706+.
Congrats to on RGC and also to the other 3 teams who scored 700+ &

Thanks to Jeremy for yet another great weekend.

We hit the road again this weekend to the Green Mountain state before a few weeks rest before The Jack.

18/08/2025

Two week catchup.

Last week went to in Canton MA and a first-time festival - What a great venue and event!
Took part in the event for Chicken and Ribs to test out some things (Gotta put in the work!)
Chicken paid off with a second place and ribs were about 9th. Congrats to House of Monarchy on GC and Smoke Sisters on RGC.

Sunday was onto and we managed a 6th in Chicken 12th in Ribs and 4th in Pork and Brisket for a 4th place overall (20 Teams).
Congrats to on GC #5 this year and for RGC.

Thanks for Mike from for organizing!

This weekend One Nine Jack and myself headed to one of our favorite events, the Kora Ride-In & BBQ Competition in Hiram ME.
Saturday we did Kids Que, Peoples Choice and one meat ribs, the remainder which went up for auction as the results were being called.
One Nine Jack put together a Blueberry/Chocolate/Bacon Muffin with Blueberry frosting and was happy with his 11th place out of 19.
Our people choice Texas Twinkies finished 2nd and the ribs came in 11th out of 39, and (along with some bribery) managed to make $400 for the charity.
Such a fun event for a great cause!

Sunday was onto KCBS and felt like a solid cook.
When the scores were tallied, we ended up (39 Teams):
Chicken:1st
Ribs:1st
Pork:6th
Brisket:25th.
to finish 5th overall.
Congrats to on GC and Canyon Rider for RGC and to all who heard their names called.

To the organizers and Auction Hosts, .humphrey.7 & , and everyone else involved a huge 'Thank You' for all your efforts!

Three weekends on the road and am ready for some R&R for a few weeks before we hit the road again!

05/08/2025

Back and cleaned up from the at in Port Jervis, NY.
Saturday was the invitational with 34 Teams competing.
Chicken:8th
Ribs:4th
Pork:2nd
Brisket:22nd (about right)
but managed to squeeze out an RGC with a 705+ score.
Congrats to and Sherry Warth from on GC, an honor to share the podium with you.
Additional shout out to , Iowa's Smokey D's BBQ, and on the category wins and everyone else who heard their names!

Sunday was the Open and had 47 Teams.
Chicken:38th
Ribs:9th
Pork:13th
Brisket:10th
for an overall 12th with a 692+.

Congrats to from on his GC and on their RGC.
Shoutout to all the individual category winners Dirt Bag Barbeque, , our neighbor .bbq and Grandpa Val's BBQ and everyone else who heard their names.

Additional shoutout to the organizers Jermey & Scott, all the volunteers and staff at New Century Festivals. Very well-run event!!

Nearly all turned around for the short trip down to in Canton MA this weekend.

03/08/2025

Back at it for day 2 at in Port Jervis, NY. Open competition today with about 48 teams. Good Luck to all!