Looking over their shoulder
BACK FROM THE DEAD has landed one call behind them 2 times.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
BACK FROM THE DEAD has landed one call behind them 2 times.
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.
Triangle S BBQ has 2 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 116 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 Triangle S BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Triangle S BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after Triangle S BBQ did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ 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 | 156.4912 | 141.6228 | 149.06 | top 84% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9660 | 145.6572 | 148.81 | top 94% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 143.9656 | 155.39 | top 68% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8344 | 154.2400 | 154.54 | top 80% |
“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 93% | 84.5% | 84.5% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 88% | 84.3% | 84.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-20 | Cherokee Strip BBQ Cook-Off 🏅 Ponca City, OK | 26 / 28 (608.3428) | 27 (141.6228) | 28 (145.6572) | 12 (166.8228) | 22 (154.2400) |
| 2015-09-18 | Cherokee Strip BBQ Cookoff Ponca City, OK | 28 / 32 (607.2572) | 23 (156.4912) | 28 (151.9660) | 30 (143.9656) | 26 (154.8344) |