Their season
2013 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 40%.
- 3 contests
- 1 overall top-10s
- 0 category wins
- average top 40%
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
2013 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 40%.
CAVEMAN CUISINE ahead in 100% of their meetings
CAVEMAN CUISINE has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Pork Ribs is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 10.64 points below their chicken, and turns into a call 20% of the time against 0%.
Finished 5 of 29 at their very first tracked contest, Sam's Club National BBQ Tour (2013-03-08).
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.
141 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team HOGGY STYLE OK has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 12 years after HOGGY STYLE OK did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with HOGGY STYLE OK on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2860 | 160.0000 | 162.49 | top 57% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 166.8572 | 140.4912 | 151.86 | top 75% |
| Pork | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.2856 | 143.3716 | 160.79 | top 53% |
| Brisket | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 172.5714 | 149.7028 | 158.62 | top 56% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OK | 3 | 0 | top 67% |
| KS | 1 | 0 | top 90% |
| TX | 1 | 0 | top 17% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 58% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 67% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +11.4 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | 2013-03-08 |
| +4.8 | 8th Annual Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ | 2013-04-19 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -13.5 | Smokin' At The Run Shootout | 2014-03-14 |
| -10.8 | Smokin' Hot Cars & BBQ at the Allen County Fair | 2014-07-25 |
| -4.3 | It's A Smokin Good Thang | 2013-06-07 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 95% | 86% | 85.3% |
| 2013 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 67% | top 40% | 91% | 89.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-07-25 | Smokin' Hot Cars & BBQ at the Allen County Fair Iola, KS | 19 / 21 (619.2456) | 14 (162.2284) | 21 (140.4912) | 12 (161.7144) | 18 (154.8116) |
| 2014-03-14 | Smokin' At The Run Shootout Miami, OK | 43 / 43 (608.4000) | 36 (162.2400) | 40 (153.0856) | 43 (143.3716) | 41 (149.7028) |
| 2013-06-07 | It's A Smokin Good Thang Tecumseh, OK | 18 / 27 (637.1428) | 15 (160.0000) | 23 (152.5712) | 14 (164.0000) | 13 (160.5716) |
| 2013-04-19 | 8th Annual Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ Enid, OK | 22 / 63 (655.4292) | 19 (166.2860) | 58 (146.2862) | 15 (170.2856) | 3 (172.5714) |
| 2013-03-08 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Westworth Village, TX | 5 / 29 (648.5716) | 14 (161.7144) | 2 (166.8572) | 9 (164.5714) | 14 (155.4286) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 ↗ | Master | #2079 (76 pts) | #2025 (101 pts) | #2624 (66 pts) | #1984 (111 pts) | #2118 (81 pts) |
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #848 (356 pts) | #992 (316 pts) | #828 (391 pts) | #879 (371 pts) | #691 (471 pts) |