Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) is their spot: an average finish in the top 19% across 2 visits.
95.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 687.3828 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) — 95.5% of a perfect 720.
IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of SPITFIRE in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Off the trail for 3 years, then back at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) (2018-10-26).
A tougher draw than 83% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1609 power rating — a tougher draw than 83% of every rated contest in the data.
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.
Little Pig Town 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 65 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.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 4 years before Little Pig Town's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 10 years after Little Pig Town did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Little Pig Town on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 7 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2015, 3 years before Little Pig Town'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 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 175.4744 | 166.8228 | 170.63 | top 37% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 172.0116 | 165.6800 | 168.78 | top 38% |
| Pork | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 175.4172 | 165.1084 | 170.05 | top 30% |
| Brisket | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 177.7372 | 167.9884 | 171.08 | top 27% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TN | 2 | 0 | top 19% |
| OK | 2 | 0 | top 28% |
| MO | 1 | 0 | top 10% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 47% |
| Large (40+) | 4 | 0 | top 14% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) | 2 | 14 | 0 | top 19% | 2018-10-26 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +16.7 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) | 2018-10-26 |
| +15.4 | 28th Annual Cherokee Strip Cookoff | 2014-09-19 |
| +13.2 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) | 2015-10-23 |
| +5.5 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour (Regional) | 2013-10-11 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 14% | 95.5% | 95.5% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 24% | 94.4% | 94.4% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 10% | 94.4% | 94.4% |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 28% | 94.6% | 94.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-26 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) Lynchburg, TN | 14 / 102 (687.3828) | 14 (175.4744) | 58 (167.9656) | 8 (175.4172) | 45 (168.5256) |
| 2015-10-23 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 22 / 93 (679.9312) | 42 (169.1200) | 48 (167.9656) | 58 (165.1084) | 2 (177.7372) |
| 2014-09-19 | 28th Annual Cherokee Strip Cookoff Ponca City, OK | 4 / 41 (679.3824) | 14 (169.7256) | 6 (170.2856) | 9 (169.6800) | 2 (169.6912) |
| 2013-10-11 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour (Regional) Midwest City, OK | 14 / 30 (674.8456) | 23 (166.8228) | 6 (172.0116) | 12 (168.0228) | 19 (167.9884) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 17 / 174 (681.1200) | 29 (172.0000) | 78 (165.6800) | 27 (172.0000) | 37 (171.4400) |