Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
94.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 680.4796 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) — 94.5% 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.
*Smokin Boys & Hot Grills 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 95 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-headLevel with *Smokin Boys & Hot Grills 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 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2016.
⚔ Head-to-head8 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where *Smokin Boys & Hot Grills's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where *Smokin Boys & Hot Grills's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2856 | 166.8456 | 168.57 | top 55% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 162.2744 | 166.55 | top 60% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 162.2284 | 168.25 | top 50% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 168.5484 | 169.69 | top 44% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) | 2 | 43 | 0 | top 54% | 2017-10-27 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 45% | 94.5% | 94.5% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 63% | 92.4% | 92.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-10-27 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 43 / 95 (680.4796) | 64 (166.8456) | 40 (170.8228) | 20 (174.2628) | 50 (168.5484) |
| 2016-10-21 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 60 / 96 (665.6112) | 41 (170.2856) | 74 (162.2744) | 76 (162.2284) | 33 (170.8228) |