Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 674.8004 at The Real Squeal: Lyons Barbeque & Music Festival (GBC & SBBQA Qualifier) — 93.7% of a perfect 720.
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.
TRIPLE THREAT SMOKERS has 2 rated contests — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 125 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with TRIPLE THREAT SMOKERS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after TRIPLE THREAT SMOKERS did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1544 | 160.0000 | 164.58 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 176.5716 | 154.2856 | 165.43 | top 49% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2854 | 159.3716 | 160.83 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 156.5716 | 163.14 | top 61% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 28% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 91% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 50% | top 28% | 93.7% | 93.7% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 91% | 87.9% | 87.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-10 | The Real Squeal: Lyons Barbeque & Music Festival (GBC & SBBQA Qualifier) Lyons, GA | 7 / 25 (674.8004) | 12 (169.1544) | 1 (176.5716) | 18 (159.3716) | 10 (169.7028) |
| 2014-05-23 | Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que & Bluegrass Festival (GBC & SBBQA Qualifier) Evans, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2013-05-24 | Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que (GBC Qualifier) Evans, GA | 43 / 47 (633.1426) | 40 (160.0000) | 44 (154.2856) | 35 (162.2854) | 39 (156.5716) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 ↗ | Master | #1564 (155 pts) | #1953 (115 pts) | #1157 (275 pts) | #2122 (85 pts) | #1883 (125 pts) |