The one to beat
JW BARBECUE AND WINGS has finished one call ahead of Riddhall BBQ 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.
JW BARBECUE AND WINGS has finished one call ahead of Riddhall BBQ 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.
Riddhall 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 143 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-headThey've been 1509 at their best, 36 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Riddhall BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after Riddhall BBQ did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1503 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ 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 | 141.1428 | 130.8000 | 135.97 | top 93% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.2000 | 142.2744 | 145.74 | top 87% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.1544 | 144.5140 | 146.83 | top 89% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 140.5600 | 20.0000 | 80.28 | top 94% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Chesapeake Jubilee BBQ Cook-Off | 2 | 27 | 0 | top 100% | 2018-05-18 |
| 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% | 78.5% | 78.5% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 62.9% | 62.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-18 | *Chesapeake Jubilee BBQ Cook-Off Chesapeake, VA | 27 / 27 (565.0740) | 27 (130.8000) | 25 (149.2000) | 26 (144.5140) | 24 (140.5600) |
| 2017-05-19 | *Chesapeake Jubilee BBQ Cook-Off Chesapeake, VA | 34 / 34 (452.5716) | 29 (141.1428) | 28 (142.2744) | 28 (149.1544) | 34 (20.0000) |