Alabama’s Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q captured its record 13th first-place finish — and second in a row — in the shoulder competition at the Memphis in May 2025 World Championship Barbecue Contest, the Super Bowl of barbecue cookoffs.

The Memphis in May winners were announced Saturday night.

Also, the team from Big Bob Gibson finished second in the overall Grand Champion category, a title they have previously won five times.

Big Bob Gibson was also second in the Kingsford Tour of Champions, a people’s choice-type award voted on by festival attendees.

The competition team from the iconic barbecue restaurant that Alabama BBQ legend Bob Gibson started in Decatur in 1925 previously won the Grand Champion title at Memphis in May in 2000, 2003, 2011, 2014 and 2017.

The Big Bob Gibson team won first place in the shoulders category 12 previous times, including in 2024.

The competition team was led by pitmaster Chris Lilly, Gibson’s great-grandson-in-law, and Lilly’s two sons, Jacob and Andrew. They are the fourth and fifth generations of the Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q family.

The restaurant is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

The Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, held at Liberty Park in the Bluff City, attracted about 120 competitive teams from around the United States and some foreign countries.

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