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 74%.
Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 10.80 points below their pork, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 29%.
Off the trail for 6.6 years, then back at Minnesota in May (Masters) (2022-05-13).
Their overall swings ±8.59% of a perfect score around its own average — when it lands they're dangerous, and when it doesn't the weekend is gone by lunch.
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 7,292 miles across 10 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 1,806 miles to Memorial Day Salute to Service.
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.
77 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 OLD SCHOOL BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 7 contests to 10, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with OLD SCHOOL BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 5 years before OLD SCHOOL BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 5 years before OLD SCHOOL BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7142 | 140.4912 | 150.83 | top 85% |
| Pork Ribs | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 122.0572 | 152.03 | top 76% |
| Pork | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 171.9998 | 142.8228 | 159.18 | top 62% |
| Brisket | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.7888 | 135.9316 | 148.38 | top 87% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KS | 2 | 0 | top 96% |
| AR | 1 | 0 | top 85% |
| MN | 1 | 0 | top 95% |
| FL | 1 | 0 | top 98% |
| AZ | 1 | 0 | top 45% |
| MO | 1 | 0 | top 81% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 5 | 0 | top 80% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 96% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +2.6 | Memorial Day Salute to Service | 2013-05-24 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -14.4 | When Pigs Fly South | 2013-11-15 |
| -13.3 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | 2014-05-02 |
| -9.5 | Truman Heritage Festival BBQ Championship | 2013-05-03 |
| -9.5 | Minnesota in May (Masters) | 2022-05-13 |
| -9.3 | Harper County Bullseye BBQ | 2015-10-16 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 90% | 85.3% | 84.1% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 91% | 85.9% | 85.9% |
| 2014 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 77.7% | 77.7% |
| 2013 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 74% | 90.6% | 79.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-23 | Downtown Jonesboro BarBQ Festival 🏅 Jonesboro, AR | 28 / 33 (596.5260) | 28 (154.2628) | 31 (141.6916) | 18 (164.6400) | 28 (135.9316) |
| 2022-08-26 | Roast N Boast - Rib Roast (ONE MEAT RIBS) Columbus, MS | — | — | 8 (172.5600) | — | — |
| 2022-05-13 | Minnesota in May (Masters) 🏅 Cambridge, MN | 56 / 59 (614.0460) | 53 (157.7144) | 59 (151.9200) | 58 (149.6228) | 53 (154.7888) |
| 2015-10-16 | Harper County Bullseye BBQ Harper, KS | 31 / 34 (618.7320) | 34 (141.6916) | 23 (159.9888) | 9 (169.6800) | 32 (147.3716) |
| 2014-09-26 | Butts and Beans BBQ Challenge Hickory, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-05-02 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Overland Park, KS | 29 / 29 (559.1200) | 28 (146.7884) | 29 (122.0572) | 29 (142.8228) | 25 (147.4516) |
| 2014-01-23 | The Tiger Town Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2013-11-15 | When Pigs Fly South Lakeland, FL | 48 / 49 (447.9996) | 48 (140.4912) | — | 42 (155.5084) | 41 (152.0000) |
| 2013-05-24 | Memorial Day Salute to Service Mesa, AZ | 13 / 29 (651.9994) | 8 (169.7142) | 20 (157.7142) | 2 (171.9998) | 25 (152.5712) |
| 2013-05-03 | Truman Heritage Festival BBQ Championship Grandview, MO | 25 / 31 (611.9998) | 30 (145.1428) | 18 (158.2854) | 19 (160.0002) | 25 (148.5714) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 ↗ | Master | #2798 (54 pts) | #2791 (54 pts) | #2794 (54 pts) | #2799 (54 pts) | #2793 (54 pts) |
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1377 (170 pts) | #1310 (205 pts) | #1482 (170 pts) | #936 (340 pts) | #1833 (110 pts) |