Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 663.3372 at 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational — 92.1% of a perfect 720.
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.
IT'LL DO BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 106 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 IT'LL DO BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 17 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head19 contests to 6: their number has had years to settle where IT'LL DO BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after IT'LL DO BBQ did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with IT'LL DO BBQ 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8000 | 154.2288 | 154.51 | top 91% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5944 | 168.5600 | 170.58 | top 25% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 158.2628 | 164.26 | top 53% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8572 | 165.6800 | 168.27 | top 37% |
“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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 61% | 92.1% | 91.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-27 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-01-29 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-01-30 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 301 / 552 (651.9088) | 466 (154.2288) | 162 (168.5600) | 403 (158.2628) | 88 (170.8572) |
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 110 / 165 (663.3372) | 162 (154.8000) | 34 (172.5944) | 53 (170.2628) | 97 (165.6800) |
| 2014-01-23 | The Tiger Town Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |