Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
SMOKIN DINGER - THE PROFESSOR OF HOGOLOGY ahead in 100% of their meetings
SMOKIN DINGER - THE PROFESSOR OF HOGOLOGY has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
MOTLEY QUE 005 has 3 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 141 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 — 7 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after MOTLEY QUE 005 did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with MOTLEY QUE 005 on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0000 | 151.4400 | 158.08 | top 69% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8916 | 144.5028 | 152.75 | top 80% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9884 | 159.3712 | 161.48 | top 67% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9428 | 131.9428 | 148.52 | top 79% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NE | 2 | 0 | top 79% |
| SD | 1 | 0 | top 82% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 82% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 79% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.6 | Riverfest Community Festival | 2017-07-21 |
| -6.8 | Ribs, Rods and Rock'n Roll | 2016-09-09 |
| -2.3 | RiverFest Red White and Que | 2016-07-15 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 83.6% | 83.6% |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 73% | 88.6% | 87.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-07-21 | Riverfest Community Festival Bellevue, NE | 43 / 46 (601.6456) | 42 (151.4400) | 32 (158.8916) | 35 (159.3712) | 45 (131.9428) |
| 2016-09-09 | Ribs, Rods and Rock'n Roll Vermillion, SD | 28 / 34 (623.2684) | 16 (164.0000) | 32 (144.5028) | 24 (161.0856) | 26 (153.6800) |
| 2016-07-15 | RiverFest Red White and Que Bellevue, NE | 29 / 45 (637.5880) | 31 (158.8112) | 35 (154.8456) | 25 (163.9884) | 28 (159.9428) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #2212 (60 pts) | #2286 (60 pts) | #2304 (60 pts) | #2260 (60 pts) | #2266 (60 pts) |
| 2016 ↗ | Master | #1932 (119 pts) | #1666 (164 pts) | #2013 (119 pts) | #1863 (124 pts) | #1985 (119 pts) |