Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 667.3828 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) — 92.7% 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.
*Prairie Smoke & Spice 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 114 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 *Prairie Smoke & Spice BBQ 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-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where *Prairie Smoke & Spice BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ 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 | 171.9888 | 169.7372 | 170.86 | top 31% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 171.4172 | 172.27 | top 34% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 161.0856 | 165.67 | top 58% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.0856 | 155.9656 | 158.53 | top 82% |
“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) | 2 | 56 | 0 | top 57% | 2018-10-26 |
| 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 55% | 92.7% | 92.7% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 59% | 92.7% | 92.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-26 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) Lynchburg, TN | 56 / 102 (667.3828) | 35 (169.7372) | 38 (171.4172) | 31 (170.2628) | 86 (155.9656) |
| 2016-10-21 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 57 / 96 (667.2800) | 26 (171.9888) | 29 (173.1200) | 82 (161.0856) | 77 (161.0856) |