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96.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 691.4056 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) — 96.0% 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.
Steel Booty 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 84 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Steel Booty BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after Steel Booty BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Steel Booty BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Steel Booty BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Steel Booty BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Steel Booty BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6684 | 165.6684 | 165.67 | top 68% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 173.1200 | 173.12 | top 28% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 177.1772 | 177.1772 | 177.18 | top 1% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 175.4400 | 175.4400 | 175.44 | top 9% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 10% | 96% | 96% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-21 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 10 / 96 (691.4056) | 65 (165.6684) | 27 (173.1200) | 1 (177.1772) | 9 (175.4400) |