Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
2014 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 47%.
BUTCHER BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
BUTCHER BBQ has come out ahead in 6 of their 6 shared contests.
Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 9.33 points below their pork ribs, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 29%.
Off the trail for 3 years, then back at *Kansas BBQ Shoot Out Day 1 (2018-03-02).
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.
127 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
Careers of much the same size, 7 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Jay Willies Whiskey Pit BBQ did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Jay Willies Whiskey Pit BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2015, 3 years before Jay Willies Whiskey Pit BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2015, 3 years before Jay Willies Whiskey Pit BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 4 years before Jay Willies Whiskey Pit BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUTCHER BBQ | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| SMOKIN ELVISES | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| CHIP ON OUR SHOULDER | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| BUFFALO'S BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Rise N Swine | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.2744 | 152.5028 | 166.26 | top 50% |
| Pork Ribs | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 172.6056 | 164.5600 | 168.72 | top 40% |
| Pork | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2284 | 148.5600 | 160.78 | top 72% |
| Brisket | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.0116 | 151.4056 | 159.39 | top 69% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KS | 4 | 0 | top 61% |
| OK | 2 | 0 | top 83% |
| TX | 1 | 0 | top 46% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 47% |
| Large (40+) | 5 | 0 | top 73% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +7.2 | Harper County Bullseye BBQ | 2014-10-17 |
| +2.3 | City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival | 2014-08-30 |
| +0.9 | *Kansas BBQ Shoot Out Day 1 | 2018-03-02 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8.3 | 2nd Annual Smokin At The Run Shootout | 2015-03-21 |
| -3.6 | *Kansas BBQ Shootout Day 2 | 2018-03-03 |
| -2.6 | 3rd Annual Smokin At The Run | 2015-03-20 |
| -0.8 | When Pigs Fly BBQ Contest & Fly In | 2014-08-22 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 92% | 91.8% |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 92% | 91.6% |
| 2014 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 67% | top 47% | 91.7% | 90.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-03-03 | *Kansas BBQ Shootout Day 2 Cheney, KS | 35 / 42 (659.9204) | 27 (167.4172) | 24 (167.9772) | 40 (152.5144) | 11 (172.0116) |
| 2018-03-02 | *Kansas BBQ Shoot Out Day 1 Cheney, KS | 32 / 47 (662.1600) | 11 (172.5600) | 16 (169.1200) | 34 (165.0856) | 43 (155.3944) |
| 2015-03-21 | 2nd Annual Smokin At The Run Shootout Miami, OK | 76 / 82 (656.3772) | 81 (161.6572) | 52 (167.3828) | 68 (165.6800) | 72 (161.6572) |
| 2015-03-20 | 3rd Annual Smokin At The Run Miami, OK | 64 / 87 (662.1600) | 20 (174.2744) | 55 (164.5600) | 52 (166.2284) | 74 (157.0972) |
| 2014-10-17 | Harper County Bullseye BBQ Harper, KS | 10 / 30 (642.2284) | 2 (170.8228) | 4 (171.4400) | 25 (148.5600) | 23 (151.4056) |
| 2014-08-30 | City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival Bedford, TX | 35 / 76 (642.7996) | 62 (152.5028) | 4 (172.6056) | 26 (165.1656) | 46 (152.5256) |
| 2014-08-22 | When Pigs Fly BBQ Contest & Fly In McPherson, KS | 22 / 36 (660.4800) | 20 (164.5828) | 16 (167.9888) | 28 (162.2400) | 21 (165.6684) |