Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 665.0968 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) — 92.4% 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.
*De Filous 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 101 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 *De Filous's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after *De Filous did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with *De Filous 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 *De Filous's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where *De Filous's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where *De Filous's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.4056 | 159.4056 | 159.41 | top 94% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8456 | 170.8456 | 170.85 | top 40% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1200 | 165.1200 | 165.12 | top 70% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7256 | 169.7256 | 169.73 | top 40% |
“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 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 64% | 92.4% | 92.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-21 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 61 / 96 (665.0968) | 90 (159.4056) | 38 (170.8456) | 67 (165.1200) | 38 (169.7256) |