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92.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 666.7084 at * Indian River Twisted Tail BBQ Cookoff (JUDGES REGISTRATION FULL) — 92.6% 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.
T & W Barbecue 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 116 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 T & W Barbecue has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where T & W Barbecue's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with T & W Barbecue on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after T & W Barbecue did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where T & W Barbecue's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where T & W Barbecue's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2168 | 162.2168 | 162.22 | top 72% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.2516 | 166.2516 | 166.25 | top 20% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 172.5600 | 172.56 | top 28% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.6800 | 165.6800 | 165.68 | 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 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 36% | 92.6% | 92.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-01 | * Indian River Twisted Tail BBQ Cookoff (JUDGES REGISTRATION FULL) Vero Beach, FL | 9 / 25 (666.7084) | 18 (162.2168) | 5 (166.2516) | 7 (172.5600) | 10 (165.6800) |