Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 674.1368 at Smoke on the Harbor BBQ throwdown(PALMETTO BBQ SERIES) — 93.6% of a perfect 720.
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.
Carolina Smokin John 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 114 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Carolina Smokin John BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after Carolina Smokin John BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Carolina Smokin John BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Carolina Smokin John BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Carolina Smokin John BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Carolina Smokin John BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.5256 | 168.5256 | 168.53 | top 20% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8112 | 170.8112 | 170.81 | top 24% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6800 | 161.6800 | 161.68 | top 52% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 173.1200 | 173.1200 | 173.12 | top 8% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 32% | 93.6% | 93.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-11-10 | Smoke on the Harbor BBQ throwdown(PALMETTO BBQ SERIES) Mt. Pleasant, SC | 8 / 25 (674.1368) | 5 (168.5256) | 6 (170.8112) | 13 (161.6800) | 2 (173.1200) |