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A multi-meat day
1contests with 2+ category wins
They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at Smoke, Wind & Fire (2021-07-10).
Chicken 1st
Pork Ribs 1st
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High-water mark
331.4056career-best overall
92.1% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 331.4056 at Smoke, Wind & Fire — 92.1% of a perfect 360.
Backyard
2021-07-10
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Mando 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 81 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.
“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.
The story so far (12 numbers that describe this team)