Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 666.7540 at The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship — 92.6% 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.
The Meat Rubbers 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 139 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-head4 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with The Meat Rubbers 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 151.3484 | 157.29 | top 81% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 145.6228 | 159.38 | top 64% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 155.9312 | 163.20 | top 60% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5828 | 141.1200 | 155.61 | top 64% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KS | 2 | 0 | top 59% |
| MI | 1 | 0 | top 93% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 93% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 59% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +7.9 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship | 2023-06-23 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship | 2022-06-24 |
| -9.1 | Rumble on the River Presented by TheBBQSuperStore.com | 2021-09-24 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 31% | 92.6% | 92.6% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 88% | 85.7% | 85.7% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 86.5% | 86.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-23 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 51 / 167 (666.7540) | 142 (151.3484) | 39 (170.2628) | 9 (176.5600) | 31 (168.5828) |
| 2022-06-24 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 145 / 164 (616.9708) | 128 (157.1084) | 156 (145.6228) | 128 (157.1084) | 119 (157.1312) |
| 2021-09-24 | Rumble on the River Presented by TheBBQSuperStore.com 🏅 Grand Haven, MI | 26 / 28 (622.7084) | 22 (163.4172) | 21 (162.2400) | 27 (155.9312) | 28 (141.1200) |