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93.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 672.4568 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) — 93.4% of a perfect 720.
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.
Killer V Cooking Team 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 110 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.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Killer V Cooking Team on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after Killer V Cooking Team did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1200 | 152.0340 | 156.58 | top 91% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.5944 | 161.6684 | 169.13 | top 47% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 175.4056 | 170.8456 | 173.13 | top 20% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 162.2284 | 168.25 | top 48% |
“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 72% | 91.9% | 91.9% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 48% | 93.4% | 93.4% |
| 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 | 70 / 97 (661.7024) | 96 (152.0340) | 15 (176.5944) | 30 (170.8456) | 73 (162.2284) |
| 2016-10-21 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 46 / 96 (672.4568) | 79 (161.1200) | 76 (161.6684) | 9 (175.4056) | 19 (174.2628) |