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92.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 667.3140 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) — 92.7% 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.
* Eureka Smoke 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 118 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-headThey turned up 6 years after * Eureka Smoke did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with * Eureka Smoke 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-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 3 years before * Eureka Smoke's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2013, 4 years before * Eureka Smoke'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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4056 | 163.9428 | 167.67 | top 56% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 161.6800 | 162.55 | top 81% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4056 | 154.8344 | 163.12 | top 59% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9884 | 161.0856 | 162.54 | top 72% |
“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 | 56 | 0 | top 74% | 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 88% | 89.5% | 89.5% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 60% | 92.7% | 92.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-10-27 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 84 / 95 (644.4456) | 76 (163.9428) | 84 (161.6800) | 90 (154.8344) | 68 (163.9884) |
| 2015-10-23 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 56 / 93 (667.3140) | 29 (171.4056) | 68 (163.4172) | 21 (171.4056) | 68 (161.0856) |