We’re almost there.
By this time tomorrow we will have our Final Four of North Carolina barbecue. The last two brackets are down to their final two contenders, and today’s voting will determine the best pulled pork in North Carolina, plus the top specialty barbecue restaurant in the state.
As with the two regional variations, the remaining contenders are top seeds, although they did not escape without a scare, particularly The Pit and NC BBQ, which both trailed for a time before late runs pulled them through to the next round.
A formatting note: tomorrow and Wednesday, instead of running them as separate stories, we’ll run the semifinals and finals in Storm Advisory so that more people have a chance to vote in the final polls.