Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 16.81 points below their chicken, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 20%.
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 30,423 miles across 5 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 10,961 miles to *Yak Ales Perth Barbecue Festival.
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.
145 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 THE GRYPHON SMOKEHOUSE has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after THE GRYPHON SMOKEHOUSE did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with THE GRYPHON SMOKEHOUSE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.3200 | 158.9028 | 163.77 | top 54% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.8800 | 148.5028 | 159.19 | top 60% |
| Pork | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.1428 | 136.5484 | 157.12 | top 67% |
| Brisket | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.3316 | 131.4628 | 146.96 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IL | 2 | 0 | top 80% |
| AU | 1 | 0 | top 82% |
| GA | 1 | 0 | top 97% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 62% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 85% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red, White & BBQ (Day 2) | 2 | 34 | 0 | top 80% | 2016-05-28 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +5.4 | *Yak Ales Perth Barbecue Festival | 2017-04-08 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.8 | Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que (GBC Qualifier) | 2015-05-22 |
| -9.5 | The Yaks Melbourne BBQ Festival | 2016-02-05 |
| -5.4 | Red, White & BBQ (Day 1) | 2016-05-27 |
| -5.3 | Red, White & BBQ (Day 2) | 2016-05-28 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 41% | 91.3% | 91.3% |
| 2016 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 80% | 89.4% | 86.2% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 85.5% | 85.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-04-08 | *Yak Ales Perth Barbecue Festival Perth, 8008 | 9 / 22 (657.2572) | 15 (158.9028) | 2 (174.8800) | 7 (165.1428) | 16 (158.3316) |
| 2016-05-28 | Red, White & BBQ (Day 2) Westmont, IL | 43 / 55 (643.9428) | 19 (170.3200) | 40 (159.4056) | 37 (161.6800) | 49 (152.5372) |
| 2016-05-27 | Red, White & BBQ (Day 1) Westmont, IL | 34 / 42 (635.2800) | 23 (165.6800) | 24 (162.2972) | 26 (161.6572) | 38 (145.6456) |
| 2016-02-05 | The Yaks Melbourne BBQ Festival Melbourne, AU | 28 / 34 (583.4056) | 8 (164.5256) | 21 (150.8688) | 32 (136.5484) | 31 (131.4628) |
| 2015-05-22 | Papa Joe's Banjo-B-Que (GBC Qualifier) Evans, GA | 63 / 65 (615.3028) | 58 (159.4288) | 63 (148.5028) | 51 (160.5600) | 63 (146.8112) |