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93.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 672.4796 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) — 93.4% 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.
* BBQ Longhorn Ranch Hands has 2 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 110 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.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with * BBQ Longhorn Ranch Hands on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2013, 3 years before * BBQ Longhorn Ranch Hands's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after * BBQ Longhorn Ranch Hands did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6912 | 162.2512 | 165.97 | top 59% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1316 | 169.1084 | 169.12 | top 48% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6800 | 158.2284 | 161.95 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5256 | 168.0000 | 168.26 | top 47% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) | 2 | 40 | 0 | top 60% | 2016-10-21 |
| 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 77% | 91.4% | 91.4% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 43% | 93.4% | 93.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-21 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 74 / 96 (658.1368) | 76 (162.2512) | 52 (169.1316) | 87 (158.2284) | 46 (168.5256) |
| 2015-10-23 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 40 / 93 (672.4796) | 36 (169.6912) | 39 (169.1084) | 51 (165.6800) | 42 (168.0000) |