Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
94.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 681.1312 at The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship — 94.6% of a perfect 720.
Meat Your Maker has finished one call ahead of G&S Smoke & Spice 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
BREW 'N' BAR-B-QUE ahead in 89% of their meetings
BREW 'N' BAR-B-QUE has come out ahead in 8 of their 9 shared contests.
Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 7.32 points below their chicken, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 11%.
Ahead in 89% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of This is Nice in 8 of their 9 shared contests.
Off the trail for 3 years, then back at The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship (2022-06-24).
BREW 'N' BAR-B-QUE ahead 78% of the time
Even in their strongest meat, BREW 'N' BAR-B-QUE has out-cooked them in 7 of 9 shared chicken entries.
3 GUYS WITH WOOD has landed one call behind them 2 times.
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.
95 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team G&S Smoke & Spice has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1702 at their best, 179 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 9 contests to 9, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 8 years before G&S Smoke & Spice's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with G&S Smoke & Spice on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 5 years before G&S Smoke & Spice's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This is Nice | 9 | 8 | 1 | 89% | ⚔ compare |
| KC Rib doctor | 9 | 6 | 3 | 67% | ⚔ compare |
| Griswold Grillers | 9 | 5 | 4 | 56% | ⚔ compare |
| Sloppy Seconds | 9 | 5 | 4 | 56% | ⚔ compare |
| Shorthorn BBQ | 9 | 5 | 4 | 56% | ⚔ compare |
| Big Fork BBQ | 9 | 4 | 5 | 44% | ⚔ compare |
| PASSIONS OF THE PIT | 9 | 4 | 5 | 44% | ⚔ compare |
| Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em | 9 | 3 | 6 | 33% | ⚔ compare |
| BREW 'N' BAR-B-QUE | 9 | 1 | 8 | 11% | ⚔ compare |
| Right Time BBQ | 8 | 8 | 0 | 100% | ⚔ compare |
| 3 GUYS WITH WOOD | 8 | 4 | 4 | 50% | ⚔ compare |
| Hoggy Style BBQ | 8 | 3 | 5 | 38% | ⚔ compare |
| Dead Last BBQ | 8 | 2 | 6 | 25% | ⚔ compare |
| 913 BBQ | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Smokin Engineers | 7 | 7 | 0 | 100% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7256 | 159.3828 | 165.26 | top 32% |
| Pork Ribs | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 147.9772 | 159.60 | top 53% |
| Pork | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.0000 | 149.1200 | 162.54 | top 43% |
| Brisket | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 141.6916 | 157.94 | top 50% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Lenexa BBQ Battle-Kansas State Championship | 3 | 29 | 0 | top 42% | 2016-06-24 |
| Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship Barbeque | 2 | 42 | 0 | top 53% | 2018-09-21 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +13.7 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship | 2022-06-24 |
| +11.6 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle-Kansas State Championship | 2016-06-24 |
| +9.4 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship | 2015-06-26 |
| +8.4 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle-Kansas State Championship | 2017-06-23 |
| +3.3 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship Barbeque | 2018-09-21 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.5 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship | 2014-06-27 |
| -5.7 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship Barbeque | 2017-09-22 |
| -4.4 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle-Kansas State Championship | 2019-06-21 |
| -1.4 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle | 2018-06-22 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 9% | 94.6% | 94.6% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 64% | 88% | 88% |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 47% | 91.3% | 89.6% |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 45% | 90.5% | 89.4% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 16% | 92% | 92% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 24% | 90.4% | 90.4% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 86% | 83.6% | 83.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-06-24 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 15 / 164 (681.1312) | 10 (173.7256) | 66 (165.1428) | 54 (168.5600) | 11 (173.7028) |
| 2019-06-21 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle-Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 117 / 183 (633.6684) | 76 (162.2628) | 151 (149.7372) | 61 (165.7028) | 115 (155.9656) |
| 2018-09-21 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship Barbeque 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 42 / 107 (657.6688) | 32 (166.8800) | 65 (162.2400) | 62 (161.7144) | 36 (166.8344) |
| 2018-06-22 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle Lenexa, KS | 100 / 185 (632.4572) | 76 (161.6572) | 49 (165.7028) | 133 (153.1656) | 131 (151.9316) |
| 2017-09-22 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship Barbeque 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 74 / 112 (636.4112) | 80 (159.3828) | 57 (162.8000) | 13 (172.0000) | 109 (142.2284) |
| 2017-06-23 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle-Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 44 / 184 (651.3140) | 47 (165.1084) | 117 (157.0628) | 86 (160.5828) | 26 (168.5600) |
| 2016-06-24 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle-Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 29 / 183 (662.2976) | 26 (168.5600) | 112 (157.1432) | 19 (170.2972) | 34 (166.2972) |
| 2015-06-26 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 44 / 183 (650.8684) | 40 (166.3200) | 26 (168.5600) | 78 (161.7600) | 109 (154.2284) |
| 2014-06-27 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 159 / 184 (602.2516) | 70 (163.4628) | 149 (147.9772) | 145 (149.1200) | 162 (141.6916) |