Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Off the trail for 6.6 years, then back at Permian Basin Barbeque Cook-off by Daniel Energy Partners (COMPETITOR SERIES) (2024-11-05).
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.
Devon Energy 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 153 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 7 years after Devon Energy did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Devon Energy on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Devon Energy's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Devon Energy's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Devon Energy's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 137.0740 | 137.0740 | 137.07 | top 96% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.3200 | 146.7772 | 155.41 | top 50% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 130.0684 | 130.0684 | 130.07 | top 96% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4284 | 155.4284 | 158.86 | top 34% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TX | 2 | 0 | top 18% |
| OK | 1 | 0 | top 96% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 96% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 18% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 11% | — | — |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 25% | — | — |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 80.2% | 80.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-11 | Permian Basin Barbeque Cook-off by Daniel Energy Partners (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Houston, TX | 11 / 98 (321.7484) | — | 9 (166.3200) | — | 24 (155.4284) |
| 2024-11-05 | Permian Basin Barbeque Cook-off by Daniel Energy Partners (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Midland, TX | 25 / 102 (310.8684) | — | 43 (153.1428) | — | 21 (157.7256) |
| 2018-03-16 | *Pork-A-Palooza Weatherford, OK | 25 / 26 (577.3480) | 25 (137.0740) | 26 (146.7772) | 25 (130.0684) | 15 (163.4284) |