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Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
95.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 687.8968 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 95.5% 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.
The Miller Lite Bunch 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 83 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.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with The Miller Lite Bunch on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ 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-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before The Miller Lite Bunch's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before The Miller Lite Bunch's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 158.2628 | 169.70 | top 45% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 159.3828 | 163.01 | top 76% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 177.1428 | 171.9772 | 174.46 | top 22% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 176.0000 | 162.7884 | 167.57 | top 54% |
“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 | 25% | top 52% | 95.5% | 93.7% |
| 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 | 139 / 158 (668.4112) | 63 (174.2628) | 153 (159.3828) | 66 (171.9772) | 141 (162.7884) |
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 114 / 401 (687.8968) | 36 (176.5600) | 182 (170.2628) | 36 (177.1428) | 282 (163.9312) |
| 2025-09-12 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 37 / 92 (667.9084) | 78 (158.2628) | 79 (159.3828) | 15 (174.2628) | 2 (176.0000) |