Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 3,383 miles across 3 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 1,663 miles to 8th Annual Vista BBQ Classic(JUDGES FULL).
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 BBQ BUS -CA 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 136 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-headLevel with THE BBQ BUS -CA 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-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2017.
⚔ 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 | 154.2400 | 148.0456 | 151.98 | top 90% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6800 | 144.0800 | 155.24 | top 72% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7028 | 141.1084 | 151.78 | top 81% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2400 | 145.1772 | 156.18 | top 63% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WI | 1 | 0 | top 64% |
| CA | 1 | 0 | top 98% |
| IL | 1 | 0 | top 83% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 64% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 90% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -12.7 | 8th Annual Vista BBQ Classic(JUDGES FULL) | 2017-07-28 |
| -7.8 | *Heritage Days BBQ Showdown | 2017-06-23 |
| -2.3 | Grill Games | 2017-08-25 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 82% | 88.5% | 85.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-08-25 | Grill Games Kenosha, WI | 25 / 39 (637.5540) | 34 (154.2400) | 12 (165.6800) | 27 (156.5140) | 17 (161.1200) |
| 2017-07-28 | 8th Annual Vista BBQ Classic(JUDGES FULL) Vista, CA | 39 / 40 (578.4112) | 39 (148.0456) | 39 (144.0800) | 39 (141.1084) | 36 (145.1772) |
| 2017-06-23 | *Heritage Days BBQ Showdown Belvidere, IL | 35 / 42 (629.5544) | 36 (153.6572) | 37 (155.9544) | 32 (157.7028) | 23 (162.2400) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #2212 (60 pts) | #2286 (60 pts) | #2304 (60 pts) | #2260 (60 pts) | #2266 (60 pts) |