Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
94.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 678.2400 at Smokin On Big Creek BBQ Contest Benefiting Operation BBQ Relief(TEAMS AND JUDGES FULL) — 94.2% of a perfect 720.
Off the trail for 2.1 years, then back at Windy City BBQ Classic (2015-09-11).
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.
THE MEATLES has 4 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 87 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 4.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after THE MEATLES did, first appearing in 2018.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with THE MEATLES on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 3 years before THE MEATLES's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 3 years before THE MEATLES's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5484 | 152.5484 | 163.84 | top 51% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5944 | 134.2516 | 157.57 | top 53% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8572 | 156.5944 | 164.14 | top 51% |
| Brisket | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 155.4516 | 162.98 | top 46% |
“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.
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +13.1 | Smokin On Big Creek BBQ Contest Benefiting Operation BBQ Relief(TEAMS AND JUDGES FULL) | 2017-03-31 |
| +12.3 | Racing For The BBQ | 2013-07-26 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -12.7 | Red, White & BBQ (Day 2) | 2016-05-28 |
| -2.2 | Windy City BBQ Classic | 2015-09-11 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 20% | 94.2% | 94.2% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 84% | 84% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 59% | 88.7% | 88.7% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 16% | 93.3% | 93.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-03-31 | Smokin On Big Creek BBQ Contest Benefiting Operation BBQ Relief(TEAMS AND JUDGES FULL) Pleasant Hill, MO | 12 / 59 (678.2400) | 10 (172.5484) | 16 (168.5944) | 26 (165.1200) | 7 (171.9772) |
| 2016-05-28 | Red, White & BBQ (Day 2) Westmont, IL | 53 / 55 (605.0628) | 53 (152.5484) | 55 (134.2516) | 47 (156.5944) | 30 (161.6684) |
| 2015-09-11 | Windy City BBQ Classic Chicago, IL | 36 / 61 (638.8344) | 43 (159.9656) | 34 (159.4172) | 34 (164.0000) | 36 (155.4516) |
| 2013-07-26 | Racing For The BBQ Lee's Summit, MO | 9 / 58 (672.0004) | 11 (170.3088) | 18 (168.0000) | 10 (170.8572) | 35 (162.8344) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #1691 (125 pts) | #1722 (135 pts) | #2032 (105 pts) | #2260 (60 pts) | #1583 (165 pts) |