Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
96.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 692.4800 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest — 96.2% of a perfect 720.
LC BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
LC BBQ has come out ahead in 5 of their 5 shared contests.
Ahead in 80% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of BULLHORN BBQ in 4 of their 5 shared contests.
Off the trail for 3 years, then back at Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff (2025-09-12).
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.
Love BBQ 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 122 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 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Love BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 9 years before Love BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Love BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Love BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Love BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BULLHORN BBQ | 5 | 4 | 1 | 80% | ⚔ compare |
| Kanned Heat | 5 | 4 | 1 | 80% | ⚔ compare |
| CHICKEN FRIED BBQ | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| PIGLITICALLY INCORRECT BBQ | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| RENEGADE BBQ | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| Sure Shot BBQ | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| LA PASADITA | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| TINY E BBQ | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| Smoke Show BBQ | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| MAN MEAT BBQ | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| LC BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Rio Valley Meat BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 167.9884 | 170.83 | top 43% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 158.1940 | 169.80 | top 40% |
| Pork | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 177.7028 | 167.4172 | 171.41 | top 36% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 163.4172 | 167.25 | top 53% |
“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.
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +10.4 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2025-11-05 |
| +3.8 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST | 2022-09-29 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -14.4 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff | 2025-09-12 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 52% | 96.2% | 87.3% |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 60% | 93.6% | 93.2% |
| 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 | 42 / 158 (692.4800) | 100 (170.8228) | 21 (176.5600) | 61 (171.9772) | 43 (173.1200) |
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 119 / 401 (686.8000) | 198 (170.8228) | 38 (176.0000) | 163 (171.4400) | 186 (168.5372) |
| 2025-09-12 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 91 / 92 (507.4172) | 23 (170.2744) | 35 (169.7256) | 44 (167.4172) | — |
| 2022-09-29 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST unrated Kansas City, KS | 177 / 249 (674.1024) | 73 (174.2628) | 241 (158.1940) | 21 (177.7028) | 206 (163.9428) |
| 2022-09-29 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 249 / 505 (668.4684) | 234 (167.9884) | 215 (168.5372) | 227 (168.5256) | 286 (163.4172) |