Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 675.9660 at 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open — 93.9% of a perfect 720.
2015 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 41%.
BUTCHER BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
BUTCHER BBQ has come out ahead in 5 of their 5 shared contests.
Pork Ribs is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 8.69 points below their brisket, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 17%.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of JERRY KING MIDLAND TX 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.
Longhorn Cookers has 4 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 118 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Longhorn Cookers has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers 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 Longhorn Cookers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 14% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Longhorn Cookers did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HONKY-TONK SMOKERS | 6 | 3 | 3 | 50% | ⚔ compare |
| LA PASADITA | 6 | 2 | 4 | 33% | ⚔ compare |
| THE AMERICAN DREAM BBQ | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| BUTCHER BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4628 | 149.6456 | 160.35 | top 60% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8800 | 139.9772 | 158.26 | top 66% |
| Pork | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.8572 | 153.6456 | 165.50 | top 42% |
| Brisket | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 173.1660 | 158.2512 | 166.95 | top 34% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) | 2 | 150 | 0 | top 70% | 2016-10-29 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +10.2 | Cedar Fest BBQ | 2015-04-10 |
| +8.7 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open | 2015-10-03 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -5.9 | *Cedar Fest BBQ Cook-Off | 2017-03-31 |
| 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% | top 67% | 85.1% | 85.1% |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 70% | 91.8% | 91.1% |
| 2015 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 41% | 93.9% | 91.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-03-31 | *Cedar Fest BBQ Cook-Off Cedar Park, TX | 47 / 70 (612.9824) | 24 (161.1084) | 64 (139.9772) | 51 (153.6456) | 28 (158.2512) |
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 316 / 557 (650.1712) | 396 (158.8456) | 459 (154.2056) | 37 (174.2972) | 275 (162.8228) |
| 2016-10-28 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(INVITATIONAL) unrated Kansas City, KS | 150 / 180 (661.1428) | 83 (171.4628) | 160 (160.5256) | 150 (162.8344) | 116 (166.3200) |
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 92 / 606 (675.9660) | 473 (157.0628) | 97 (170.8800) | 32 (174.8572) | 50 (173.1660) |
| 2015-10-02 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 162 / 187 (654.2284) | 186 (149.6456) | 132 (164.0116) | 73 (169.7028) | 70 (170.8684) |
| 2015-04-10 | Cedar Fest BBQ Cedar Park, TX | 12 / 53 (651.9316) | 15 (164.0000) | 26 (159.9888) | 25 (157.6684) | 3 (170.2744) |