Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 673.0972 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) — 93.5% 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 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of * Black Forest in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) (2018-10-26).
A tougher draw than 95% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1650 power rating — a tougher draw than 95% 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.
* BBQ Wiesel has 3 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 123 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 3.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with * BBQ Wiesel 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 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2015.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2015, 3 years before * BBQ Wiesel's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 4 years before * BBQ Wiesel'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 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 178.2972 | 170.8572 | 174.29 | top 17% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 159.9428 | 165.68 | top 63% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 165.6684 | 167.01 | top 52% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8456 | 151.3712 | 157.86 | top 77% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) | 3 | 43 | 0 | top 62% | 2018-10-26 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +8.8 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) | 2018-10-26 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -2 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) | 2015-10-23 |
| -0.5 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) | 2016-10-21 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 42% | 93.5% | 93.5% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 70% | 92% | 92% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 73% | 91.6% | 91.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-26 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) Lynchburg, TN | 43 / 102 (673.0972) | 30 (170.8572) | 70 (165.6916) | 34 (169.7028) | 52 (166.8456) |
| 2016-10-21 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 67 / 96 (662.1596) | 19 (173.7028) | 35 (171.4172) | 64 (165.6684) | 91 (151.3712) |
| 2015-10-23 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 68 / 93 (659.2684) | 2 (178.2972) | 79 (159.9428) | 53 (165.6684) | 80 (155.3600) |