A huge congratulations to our good friends, and arguably the hottest BBQ team in the world, Darren and Sherry Warth of Iowa’s Smokey D’s BBQ on being named Grand Champions of the 2018 American Royal World Series of Barbecue (Open), beating out nearly 500 teams to become the very best of the best in competition BBQ!

Here are the complete overall rankings for this year’s teams. Be sure to visit http://www.americanroyal.com/bbq/competition-information/open-competition/ for results by category, including all of this year’s ancillaries.