Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 7,330 miles across 11 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 2,336 miles to Lassen County Annual BBQ Cook-Off.
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.
WE BE SMOKIN 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 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.
Fewer contests behind them than WE BE SMOKIN has cooked, 5 to 11, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with WE BE SMOKIN on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after WE BE SMOKIN did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than WE BE SMOKIN has cooked, 5 to 11, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than WE BE SMOKIN has cooked, 6 to 11, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than WE BE SMOKIN has cooked, 5 to 11, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.1084 | 145.1656 | 155.14 | top 65% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 162.2400 | 139.9656 | 151.10 | top 72% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 171.9656 | 145.1540 | 158.56 | top 59% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3600 | 155.3600 | 155.36 | top 75% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 59.8% | 59.8% |
| 2016 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 63% | 90.9% | 90.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-08-18 | Lassen County Annual BBQ Cook-Off Susanville, CA | 15 / 15 (430.2852) | 13 (145.1656) | 14 (139.9656) | 15 (145.1540) | — |
| 2017-01-27 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-11-18 | Plant City Pig Jam Plant City, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-11-11 | *Town of Mt. Pleasant Fall Festival & First Annual Polar Pig Cook-Off Mt. Pleasant, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-01-29 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-08-28 | Hawgin on Lanier (GBC Qualifier) Gainesville, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-01-30 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-11-21 | Plant City Pig Jam Plant City, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-01-23 | The Tiger Town Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2013-08-23 | Great Southern Tailgate Cook-off Amelia Island, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2013-08-23 | Bootleggin' BBQ Garden City, CO | 10 / 16 (654.6740) | 7 (165.1084) | 8 (162.2400) | 3 (171.9656) | 12 (155.3600) |