Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Off the trail for 3.7 years, then back at *Kentucky's Fort Harrod Beef Festival Grill-Off (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) (2017-06-09).
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.
TRIPLE J & C BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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-headThey turned up 8 years after TRIPLE J & C BBQ did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with TRIPLE J & C 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 3.
⚔ 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.0228 | 172.0228 | 172.02 | top 37% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 168.5600 | 168.56 | top 44% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2056 | 154.2056 | 154.21 | top 88% |
| Brisket | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 161.0972 | 149.0400 | 156.51 | top 75% |
“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.
| 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% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 66% | 90.9% | 90.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-08 | *Kentucky's Fort Harrod Beef Festival Grill-Off (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) Harrodsburg, KY | — | — | — | — | 10 (149.0400) |
| 2017-06-09 | *Kentucky's Fort Harrod Beef Festival Grill-Off (COMPETITOR'S SERIES) Harrodsburg, KY | — | — | — | — | 10 (161.0972) |
| 2013-10-04 | Jim Beam BBQ Classic Springfield, KY | 27 / 41 (654.1828) | 15 (172.0228) | 18 (168.5600) | 36 (154.2056) | 32 (159.3944) |