Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
94.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 677.6576 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest — 94.1% of a perfect 720.
2024 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 71%.
913 BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
913 BBQ has come out ahead in 7 of their 7 shared contests.
Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 8.44 points below their pork ribs, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 0%.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Hawg Wild in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
BITE MY BUTT BBQ has landed one call behind them 2 times.
Their overall lands within ±2.08% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.
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.
GRILLBILLYS has 4 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 138 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 GRILLBILLYS has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than GRILLBILLYS has cooked, 5 to 11, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before GRILLBILLYS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with GRILLBILLYS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before GRILLBILLYS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossed Rifles BBQ | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% | ⚔ compare |
| Heavy Smoke BBQ | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% | ⚔ compare |
| Meat Candy Q | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% | ⚔ compare |
| PIGLITICALLY INCORRECT BBQ | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% | ⚔ compare |
| PORKY BUTTS BBQ | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% | ⚔ compare |
| RENEGADE BBQ | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% | ⚔ compare |
| SMOKIN' VOLTS BBQ | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% | ⚔ compare |
| SmokinGhost BBQ | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% | ⚔ compare |
| TINY E BBQ | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% | ⚔ compare |
| BULLHORN BBQ | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% | ⚔ compare |
| Kanned Heat | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% | ⚔ compare |
| 913 BBQ | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| BUNCH OF SWINES | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| CHICKEN FRIED BBQ | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| CHUNKY BBQ | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9888 | 159.9656 | 163.73 | top 77% |
| Pork Ribs | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7488 | 160.5028 | 166.92 | top 62% |
| Pork | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4400 | 150.2744 | 160.13 | top 81% |
| Brisket | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2516 | 146.2056 | 158.48 | top 82% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2 | 311 | 0 | top 78% | 2025-11-05 |
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2 | 394 | 0 | top 82% | 2023-09-27 |
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest | 2 | 202 | 0 | top 97% | 2023-09-27 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2023-09-27 |
| -7.4 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2025-11-05 |
| -5.4 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST | 2022-09-29 |
| -2.4 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2024-10-30 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 86% | 89.5% | 89.5% |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 71% | 94.1% | 92.9% |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 91% | 90.8% | 89.4% |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 89.4% | 88.6% |
| 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 - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 343 / 401 (644.4688) | 349 (159.9772) | 132 (171.9772) | 387 (150.2744) | 302 (162.2400) |
| 2024-10-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2024-10-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 120 / 169 (677.6576) | 84 (171.9888) | 89 (170.8344) | 74 (171.4400) | 152 (163.3944) |
| 2024-10-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 311 / 444 (660.4460) | 282 (166.2744) | 357 (162.2400) | 286 (165.6800) | 247 (166.2516) |
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 422 / 487 (633.5200) | 399 (159.9656) | 386 (160.5028) | 449 (153.6684) | 373 (159.3832) |
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 202 / 211 (653.5776) | 186 (165.0972) | 177 (165.6916) | 195 (161.6916) | 192 (161.0972) |
| 2022-10-01 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - SIDES Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2022-09-29 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST unrated Kansas City, KS | 247 / 249 (631.2796) | 243 (159.9884) | 217 (163.4172) | 231 (161.6684) | 247 (146.2056) |
| 2022-09-29 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 394 / 505 (643.8628) | 360 (162.8344) | 82 (173.7488) | 439 (156.5140) | 452 (150.7656) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #878 (120 pts) | #977 (120 pts) | #1021 (120 pts) | #938 (120 pts) | #922 (120 pts) |