They almost always walk
A call in 9 of 9 contests
A top-10 category call in 100% of their 9 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
A call in 9 of 9 contests
A top-10 category call in 100% of their 9 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.
95.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 686.2968 at City of Earlington OctoberFest — 95.3% of a perfect 720.
WARREN COUNTY PORK CHOPPERS ahead in 100% of their meetings
WARREN COUNTY PORK CHOPPERS has come out ahead in 6 of their 6 shared contests.
Pork Ribs is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 9.02 points below their pork, and turns into a call 56% of the time against 67%.
HOBBIE BAR-B-Q has landed one call behind them 2 times.
Something about June: average finish in the top 36% across 3 contests, versus top 46% the rest of the year.
Their overall lands within ±1.79% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.
The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
95 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
These two have cooked 3 of the same contests — CANETUCK'S BBQ TEAM ahead 2–1 — so there's a record behind this pairing and not just a matching number.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 9 contests to 9, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 10 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with CANETUCK'S BBQ TEAM on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 8 contests to 9, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WARREN COUNTY PORK CHOPPERS | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| HOBBIE BAR-B-Q | 5 | 4 | 1 | 80% | ⚔ compare |
| MUSIC CITY PIG PALS | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| SON SEEKERS BBQ | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 9 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 177.7144 | 145.7138 | 163.54 | top 57% |
| Pork Ribs | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 171.4286 | 146.8116 | 163.29 | top 53% |
| Pork | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 177.1428 | 166.2744 | 172.31 | top 23% |
| Brisket | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 173.1656 | 152.5710 | 164.94 | top 48% |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| KY | 3 | 0 | top 66% |
| TN | 3 | 0 | top 42% |
| IN | 2 | 0 | top 38% |
| IL | 1 | 0 | top 18% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 2 | 0 | top 63% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 26% |
| Large (40+) | 5 | 0 | top 48% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Earlington OctoberFest | 2 | 6 | 0 | top 63% | 2014-10-03 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +11.1 | 1st Annual Parkinson's Smoke Out | 2013-04-05 |
| +11.1 | Super City Blues & Ques | 2014-06-27 |
| +6.5 | Queen City Cook-Off | 2013-06-21 |
| +6.1 | Music City Festival & BBQ Championship | 2013-08-23 |
| +5.5 | City of Earlington OctoberFest | 2013-10-04 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -12 | City of Earlington OctoberFest | 2014-10-03 |
| -6.8 | Benton KY Kiwanis Barbeque Kook Off | 2013-03-29 |
| -2.6 | BBQ Fest Cooking Contest | 2014-07-25 |
| -2 | Smokin' on the River | 2013-06-14 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 100% | top 55% | 94.4% | 92.7% |
| 2013 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 100% | top 42% | 95.3% | 92% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-03 | City of Earlington OctoberFest Earlington, KY | 8 / 9 (662.7312) | 9 (156.5028) | 5 (166.8456) | 4 (172.0000) | 7 (167.3828) |
| 2014-07-25 | BBQ Fest Cooking Contest Dyersburg, TN | 26 / 44 (661.0516) | 2 (177.7144) | 38 (155.3944) | 18 (166.2744) | 31 (161.6684) |
| 2014-06-27 | Super City Blues & Ques Metropolis, IL | 6 / 33 (679.3600) | 3 (174.2628) | 9 (170.2856) | 11 (169.1200) | 15 (165.6916) |
| 2013-10-04 | City of Earlington OctoberFest Earlington, KY | 6 / 16 (686.2968) | 9 (169.7028) | 9 (168.5828) | 4 (174.8456) | 2 (173.1656) |
| 2013-08-23 | Music City Festival & BBQ Championship Nashville, TN | 18 / 55 (661.0404) | 10 (171.9772) | 50 (146.8116) | 5 (175.4172) | 16 (166.8344) |
| 2013-06-21 | Queen City Cook-Off Clarksville, TN | 13 / 39 (672.5710) | 31 (162.8570) | 17 (166.2856) | 5 (173.7142) | 12 (169.7142) |
| 2013-06-14 | Smokin' on the River Jeffersonville, IN | 30 / 52 (649.1420) | 48 (145.7138) | 8 (171.4286) | 17 (169.1426) | 28 (162.8570) |
| 2013-04-05 | 1st Annual Parkinson's Smoke Out Evansville, IN | 9 / 50 (661.7140) | 40 (152.5712) | 10 (167.4286) | 1 (177.1428) | 14 (164.5714) |
| 2013-03-29 | Benton KY Kiwanis Barbeque Kook Off Benton, KY | 29 / 40 (642.8564) | 29 (160.5712) | 31 (156.5714) | 4 (173.1428) | 34 (152.5710) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 ↗ | Master | #1197 (242 pts) | #748 (502 pts) | #1383 (212 pts) | #1322 (232 pts) | #1538 (177 pts) |
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #732 (424 pts) | #1089 (279 pts) | #680 (489 pts) | #383 (819 pts) | #798 (399 pts) |