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Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at 9th Annual DuPont BBQ Competition (2026-08-22).
96.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 691.9316 at 9th Annual DuPont BBQ Competition — 96.1% 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.
Team Best Damn BBQ Sauce%231 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 93 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.
6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Team Best Damn BBQ Sauce%231's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2019, 7 years before Team Best Damn BBQ Sauce%231's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Team Best Damn BBQ Sauce%231's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Team Best Damn BBQ Sauce%231 on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Team Best Damn BBQ Sauce%231's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2015, 11 years before Team Best Damn BBQ Sauce%231's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 177.7144 | 177.7144 | 177.71 | top 4% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 167.3944 | 167.39 | top 63% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 177.1428 | 177.1428 | 177.14 | top 4% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 169.6800 | 169.68 | top 44% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 100% | top 7% | 96.1% | 96.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-22 | 9th Annual DuPont BBQ Competition 🏅 DuPont, WA | 2 / 27 (691.9316) | 1 (177.7144) | 17 (167.3944) | 1 (177.1428) | 12 (169.6800) |