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93.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 673.0056 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) — 93.5% of a perfect 720.
Pork is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 8.03 points below their brisket, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 50%.
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 11,264 miles across 5 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 4,210 miles to 2nd Ruhrpott BBQ 2015.
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.
PITBULL BBQ 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 85 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.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with PITBULL BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2015.
⚔ 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-head6 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 6 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 151.9656 | 161.79 | top 59% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 149.1088 | 159.88 | top 59% |
| Pork | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 153.1084 | 159.52 | top 69% |
| Brisket | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 173.1316 | 159.9772 | 167.55 | top 41% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TN | 1 | 0 | top 46% |
| OR | 1 | 0 | top 89% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 89% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 30% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +11.3 | 2nd Ruhrpott BBQ 2015 | 2015-09-25 |
| +9.3 | 3rd Annual BBQ Society Cook Off | 2015-10-10 |
| +6.8 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) | 2016-10-21 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.6 | BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay | 2015-05-22 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 46% | 93.5% | 93.5% |
| 2015 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 45% | 91.2% | 90.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-21 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 44 / 96 (673.0056) | 25 (172.5600) | 58 (167.9772) | 61 (166.2400) | 63 (166.2284) |
| 2015-10-10 | 3rd Annual BBQ Society Cook Off Hoofddorp Netherlands, 61515DE | 11 / 42 (656.5256) | 20 (163.9656) | 11 (165.7372) | 34 (155.9656) | 7 (170.8572) |
| 2015-09-25 | 2nd Ruhrpott BBQ 2015 Herten, NRW, | 13 / 67 (652.5488) | 40 (161.1200) | 31 (160.0000) | 38 (158.2972) | 5 (173.1316) |
| 2015-05-22 | BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay North Bend, OR | 34 / 38 (639.8628) | 30 (159.3484) | 30 (156.5716) | 28 (163.9656) | 28 (159.9772) |
| 2015-02-27 | Fire on Ice Barbecue World Championship (Competitor's Series) Isle, MN | — | 39 (151.9656) | 41 (149.1088) | 33 (153.1084) | — |