Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 85 times in 100
Their Grand Championship at Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff (2023-09-08) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 15-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, Meat Candy Q.
Took the Grand Championship over a 99-team field at Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff.
They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff (2023-09-08).
96.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 693.1660 at Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff — 96.3% of a perfect 720.
They've taken 1 state championship from 1 entries at contests carrying the title.
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.
Race Crew Drum Smokers has 1 rated contest — 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 92 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Race Crew Drum Smokers has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Race Crew Drum Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Race Crew Drum Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before Race Crew Drum Smokers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2015, 8 years before Race Crew Drum Smokers's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 9 years before Race Crew Drum Smokers'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2860 | 166.2860 | 166.29 | top 48% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 170.2628 | 170.26 | top 31% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 178.8800 | 178.8800 | 178.88 | top 1% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 177.7372 | 177.7372 | 177.74 | top 1% |
“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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 100% | top 1% | 96.3% | 96.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-08 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 1 / 99 (693.1660) | 48 (166.2860) | 31 (170.2628) | 1 (178.8800) | 1 (177.7372) |