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Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
95.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 689.6344 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 95.8% of a perfect 720.
The Pitfather BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
The Pitfather BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Nut'n But Smoke Kookers in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
Lonestar Smokestacks 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 99 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Lonestar Smokestacks has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1702 at their best, 179 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2019, 6 years before Lonestar Smokestacks's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Lonestar Smokestacks's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Lonestar Smokestacks on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 165.6800 | 169.11 | top 53% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 178.8572 | 168.5372 | 173.51 | top 30% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.5828 | 173.1200 | 175.04 | top 20% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 153.6572 | 162.06 | top 66% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 44% | 95.8% | 94.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 141 / 158 (667.8860) | 138 (165.6800) | 67 (173.1316) | 29 (175.4172) | 157 (153.6572) |
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 94 / 401 (689.6344) | 125 (173.1200) | 7 (178.8572) | 126 (173.1200) | 267 (164.5372) |
| 2025-09-12 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 19 / 92 (681.6344) | 38 (168.5372) | 41 (168.5372) | 9 (176.5828) | 29 (167.9772) |