Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Off the trail for 4.3 years, then back at *Holmes Drywall Supply BBQ Cook-off (INVITATIONAL ONLY GRILLING SERIES) (2018-10-02).
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.
Big D's 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 125 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-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Big D's on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Big D's did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.1200 | 154.7884 | 159.58 | top 81% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 169.1772 | 153.6572 | 162.66 | top 56% |
| Pork | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 173.1544 | 162.8456 | 168.75 | top 32% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 162.2284 | 135.3372 | 148.31 | top 89% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MO | 1 | 0 | top 88% |
| IL | 1 | 0 | top 70% |
| DE | 1 | 0 | top 40% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 88% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 70% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 40% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 88% | 88.4% | 88.4% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 70% | 89.6% | 89.6% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 40% | 88.4% | 88.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-02 | *Holmes Drywall Supply BBQ Cook-off (INVITATIONAL ONLY GRILLING SERIES) unrated Kansas City, MO | 7 / 8 (636.4000) | 7 (165.1200) | 8 (153.6572) | 3 (170.2628) | 8 (147.3600) |
| 2014-06-27 | Super City Blues & Ques Metropolis, IL | 23 / 33 (645.0168) | 31 (154.7884) | 19 (165.1544) | 19 (162.8456) | 24 (162.2284) |
| 2013-09-20 | Hogs & Hops Dover Dover, DE | 18 / 45 (636.5144) | 28 (158.8456) | 5 (169.1772) | 1 (173.1544) | 43 (135.3372) |