The one to beat
Lumbee Smokers has finished one call ahead of Neon Lilly LLC 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Lumbee Smokers has finished one call ahead of Neon Lilly LLC 2 times — their closest competition 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.
Neon Lilly LLC 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 139 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.
7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Neon Lilly LLC's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after Neon Lilly LLC did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Neon Lilly LLC 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-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 | 162.2628 | 162.2628 | 162.26 | top 89% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.5484 | 148.5484 | 148.55 | top 100% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5372 | 152.5372 | 152.54 | top 96% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 137.0516 | 137.0516 | 137.05 | top 100% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-off | 2 | 27 | 0 | top 100% | 2018-07-27 |
| 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 100% | 83.4% | 83.4% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 83.4% | 83.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-27 | *Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-off Hartselle, AL | 27 / 27 (600.4000) | 24 (162.2628) | 27 (148.5484) | 26 (152.5372) | 27 (137.0516) |
| 2017-07-28 | *Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-off Hartselle, AL | 27 / 27 (600.4000) | 24 (162.2628) | 27 (148.5484) | 26 (152.5372) | 27 (137.0516) |