Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
94.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 677.0744 at International Goat Days Championship BBQ Contest-SMOKIN IN THE GOAT PEN — 94.0% 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.
MEAN GENES COOKIN TEAM has 2 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 108 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 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with MEAN GENES COOKIN TEAM 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, 8 years before MEAN GENES COOKIN TEAM's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where MEAN GENES COOKIN TEAM's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where MEAN GENES COOKIN TEAM's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.8572 | 166.2400 | 170.55 | top 45% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 168.5488 | 169.11 | top 42% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 166.8572 | 170.56 | top 44% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6800 | 160.5028 | 163.09 | 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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 55% | 93% | 93% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 28% | 94% | 94% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-09 | International Goat Days Championship BBQ Contest 🏅 Millington, TN | 21 / 38 (669.5544) | 26 (166.2400) | 19 (168.5488) | 16 (174.2628) | 29 (160.5028) |
| 2019-09-06 | International Goat Days Championship BBQ Contest-SMOKIN IN THE GOAT PEN 🏅 Millington, TN | 9 / 32 (677.0744) | 7 (174.8572) | 11 (169.6800) | 15 (166.8572) | 16 (165.6800) |