Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Off the trail for 2.2 years, then back at International Goat Days Championship BBQ Contest-SMOKIN IN THE GOAT PEN (2017-09-08).
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.
Country Boy Cookers has 3 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 121 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 — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Country Boy Cookers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after Country Boy Cookers did, first appearing in 2018.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6684 | 143.8400 | 156.68 | top 76% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7256 | 151.3944 | 161.13 | top 56% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 156.0000 | 160.75 | top 76% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5828 | 135.3716 | 151.39 | top 74% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| TN | 2 | 0 | top 83% |
| KS | 1 | 0 | top 61% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 79% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 69% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +0.7 | HutchFest BBQ Cook-Off | 2015-07-03 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -14.5 | International Goat Days Festival BBQ Bash | 2013-09-13 |
| -3.5 | International Goat Days Championship BBQ Contest-SMOKIN IN THE GOAT PEN | 2017-09-08 |
| 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 69% | 89.9% | 89.9% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 61% | 91.1% | 91.1% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 81.5% | 81.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-08 | International Goat Days Championship BBQ Contest-SMOKIN IN THE GOAT PEN Millington, TN | 29 / 42 (647.2688) | 32 (160.5372) | 26 (162.2744) | 26 (166.2400) | 31 (158.2172) |
| 2015-07-03 | HutchFest BBQ Cook-Off Hutchinson, KS | 19 / 31 (655.9768) | 17 (165.6684) | 7 (169.7256) | 25 (160.0000) | 16 (160.5828) |
| 2013-09-13 | International Goat Days Festival BBQ Bash Millington, TN | 27 / 28 (586.6060) | 27 (143.8400) | 23 (151.3944) | 24 (156.0000) | 27 (135.3716) |