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93.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 672.4684 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) — 93.4% 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.
PB & J'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 98 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-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2017.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with PB & J's 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-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2013, 5 years before PB & J's BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head8 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where PB & J's BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 165.6912 | 169.41 | top 42% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 165.7028 | 169.13 | top 32% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.1772 | 165.1084 | 167.14 | top 46% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6800 | 160.5944 | 161.14 | top 68% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MI | 1 | 0 | top 39% |
| TN | 1 | 0 | top 61% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 39% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 61% |
| 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 39% | 91.8% | 91.8% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 61% | 93.4% | 93.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-12 | *Smoke & Ale Fall Festival Chelsea, MI | 15 / 38 (661.1656) | 19 (165.6912) | 11 (165.7028) | 8 (169.1772) | 22 (160.5944) |
| 2017-10-27 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 58 / 95 (672.4684) | 32 (173.1200) | 33 (172.5600) | 68 (165.1084) | 74 (161.6800) |