Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
95.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 686.9032 at 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) — 95.4% of a perfect 720.
T-MAC SMOKIN ahead in 100% of their meetings
T-MAC SMOKIN has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Pork Ribs is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 7.42 points below their pork, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 40%.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Cool Smoke in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Off the trail for 3.1 years, then back at 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) (2016-10-29).
Something about October: average finish in the top 22% across 4 contests, versus top 36% the rest of the year.
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.
Operation BBQ Relief has 4 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 73 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 Operation BBQ Relief has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 13 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head15 contests to 5: their number has had years to settle where Operation BBQ Relief's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Operation BBQ Relief did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 5 years before Operation BBQ Relief's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Operation BBQ Relief on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.2628 | 161.7144 | 168.10 | top 42% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2972 | 150.2744 | 163.20 | top 52% |
| Pork | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 174.8456 | 165.1200 | 170.62 | top 29% |
| Brisket | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 175.4400 | 154.2856 | 166.05 | top 38% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| MO | 2 | 0 | top 54% |
| TN | 1 | 0 | top 51% |
| KS | 1 | 0 | top 5% |
| GA | 1 | 0 | top 16% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 93% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 16% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 24% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +16.3 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) | 2016-10-29 |
| +12.7 | The Real Squeal: Lyons Barbeque & Music Festival (GBC Qualifier) | 2013-10-11 |
| +12 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open | 2013-10-03 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.1 | Big 12 BIG Q (COMPETITORS SERIES) | 2018-03-07 |
| 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 51% | 93.6% | 93.6% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 93% | 88.4% | 88.4% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 5% | 95.4% | 95.4% |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 16% | 94.5% | 93.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-25 | 31st Annual Jack Daniels World Championship Invitational Barbecue(JUDGES FULL)(COMPETITORS SERIES) unrated Lynchburg, TN | 49 / 97 (673.7256) | 67 (165.7028) | 50 (169.7600) | 63 (165.1200) | 18 (173.1428) |
| 2018-03-07 | Big 12 BIG Q (COMPETITORS SERIES) Kansas CIty, MO | 13 / 14 (636.4916) | 12 (161.7144) | 14 (150.2744) | 8 (166.8456) | 9 (157.6572) |
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 29 / 557 (686.9032) | 197 (167.4172) | 123 (170.2972) | 48 (173.7488) | 26 (175.4400) |
| 2013-10-11 | The Real Squeal: Lyons Barbeque & Music Festival (GBC Qualifier) Lyons, GA | 4 / 25 (680.5028) | 3 (174.2628) | 14 (161.6916) | 2 (174.8456) | 10 (169.7028) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 84 / 535 (662.2628) | 51 (171.4172) | 174 (164.0000) | 32 (172.5600) | 329 (154.2856) |