Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
2016 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 67%.
BUTCHER BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
BUTCHER BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 10.47 points below their chicken, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 33%.
Something about June: average finish in the top 72% across 3 contests, versus top 81% the rest of the year.
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 3,279 miles across 8 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 1,174 miles to Smoke on the Falls Noccalula BBQ Fest.
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.
138 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team WOLF PACK BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than WOLF PACK BBQ has cooked, 5 to 8, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after WOLF PACK BBQ did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with WOLF PACK BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than WOLF PACK BBQ has cooked, 5 to 8, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 174.2744 | 147.3828 | 157.41 | top 66% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1088 | 138.8572 | 148.27 | top 82% |
| Pork | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.0344 | 137.6456 | 157.37 | top 67% |
| Brisket | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8116 | 139.9772 | 146.93 | top 88% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CO | 2 | 0 | top 62% |
| OK | 2 | 0 | top 92% |
| KS | 1 | 0 | top 97% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 85% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 74% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -13.7 | Blues, BBQ & Bargains | 2014-07-18 |
| -10.5 | Hog Wild BBQ & Chrome Fest | 2015-06-26 |
| -9.6 | 10th Annual Roberts Ranch Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ | 2015-04-17 |
| -2.1 | Leadville BBQ and Brew Festival | 2016-06-24 |
| -0.8 | 21st Colorado BBQ Challenge | 2014-06-13 |
| 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% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 67% | 88.8% | 88.8% |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 84.6% | 82% |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 77% | 88.1% | 86.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-07-15 | *2017 Clayton BBQ Cook-off a KCBS(Competitor Series) event Sponsored by the CBCA Clayton, CA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-08-05 | 2016 Clayton Rib Cook-off (COMPETITOR SERIES ) Clayton, CA | — | 10 (153.7028) | 13 (138.8572) | — | — |
| 2016-06-24 | Leadville BBQ and Brew Festival Leadville, CO | 22 / 33 (639.2572) | 23 (161.1084) | 20 (161.1088) | 19 (162.2284) | 26 (154.8116) |
| 2016-04-08 | Smoke on the Falls Noccalula BBQ Fest Gadsden, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-06-26 | Hog Wild BBQ & Chrome Fest Chandler, OK | 26 / 28 (572.4228) | 26 (147.3828) | 25 (147.4172) | 27 (137.6456) | 25 (139.9772) |
| 2015-04-17 | 10th Annual Roberts Ranch Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ Enid, OK | 68 / 75 (609.0404) | 53 (158.2400) | 73 (140.5488) | 33 (168.0344) | 70 (142.2172) |
| 2014-07-18 | Blues, BBQ & Bargains Hays, KS | 32 / 33 (608.1256) | 32 (149.7256) | 29 (152.5944) | 28 (158.4000) | 32 (147.4056) |
| 2014-06-13 | 21st Colorado BBQ Challenge Frisco, CO | 31 / 55 (634.1600) | 4 (174.2744) | 44 (149.0744) | 29 (160.5600) | 45 (150.2512) |