Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 667.3256 at 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL) — 92.7% of a perfect 720.
Top Gun Barbecue ahead in 100% of their meetings
Top Gun Barbecue has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Off the trail for 2.6 years, then back at Socially Distanced Smoking - Brisket presented by The BBQ League (2020-04-06).
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.
CC's Country BBQ 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 133 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 CC's Country BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before CC's Country BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2017.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with CC's Country BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2016, 5 years before CC's Country BBQ'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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.8572 | 161.1428 | 165.90 | top 62% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 175.4400 | 151.4172 | 161.51 | top 67% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.8456 | 159.4056 | 166.84 | top 57% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9428 | 148.4796 | 154.52 | top 88% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) | 2 | 112 | 0 | top 83% | 2017-09-01 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 99% | 89.5% | 89.5% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 74% | — | — |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 92.7% | 90.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-08 | 32nd Annual Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue (Competitor's Series)(JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) unrated Lynchburg, TN | 69 / 70 (644.4680) | 62 (161.1428) | 9 (175.4400) | 67 (159.4056) | 70 (148.4796) |
| 2020-04-06 | Socially Distanced Smoking - Brisket presented by The BBQ League unrated washington, MO | 81 / 109 (158.2972) | — | — | — | 81 (158.2972) |
| 2017-09-01 | 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 326 / 407 (630.7428) | 273 (161.7028) | 363 (151.4172) | 199 (166.2628) | 344 (151.3600) |
| 2017-08-31 | 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL) unrated Kansas City, KS | 112 / 129 (667.3256) | 39 (174.8572) | 127 (157.6800) | 35 (174.8456) | 121 (159.9428) |