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Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
131.2% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 472.4116 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) — 131.2% of a perfect 360.
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.
CHURCH HOUSE 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 141 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where CHURCH HOUSE BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after CHURCH HOUSE BBQ did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with CHURCH HOUSE BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where CHURCH HOUSE BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where CHURCH HOUSE BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where CHURCH HOUSE BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.0856 | 161.0856 | 161.09 | top 69% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9432 | 151.9432 | 151.94 | top 90% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3828 | 159.3828 | 159.38 | top 83% |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 90% | 131.2% | 131.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-25 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) Lynchburg, TN | 38 / 42 (472.4116) | 29 (161.0856) | 38 (151.9432) | 35 (159.3828) | — |