Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 663.9084 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) — 92.2% 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.
*Rocky Mountain Smokers 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 123 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 *Rocky Mountain Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with *Rocky Mountain Smokers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where *Rocky Mountain Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where *Rocky Mountain Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where *Rocky Mountain Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where *Rocky Mountain Smokers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1200 | 165.1200 | 165.12 | top 76% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5600 | 156.5600 | 156.56 | top 95% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2284 | 166.2284 | 166.23 | top 68% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.0000 | 176.0000 | 176.00 | top 13% |
“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 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 77% | 92.2% | 92.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-10-27 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 73 / 95 (663.9084) | 72 (165.1200) | 90 (156.5600) | 65 (166.2284) | 12 (176.0000) |