Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 665.6688 at Smokin On Big Creek BBQ Contest Benefiting Operation BBQ Relief — 92.5% 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.
Reckless and Brave 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 105 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 Reckless and Brave BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Reckless and Brave 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 Reckless and Brave BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Reckless and Brave BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Reckless and Brave BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2013, 3 years before Reckless and Brave BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9772 | 163.9772 | 163.98 | top 60% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0116 | 164.0116 | 164.01 | top 42% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 173.7028 | 173.70 | top 15% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9772 | 163.9772 | 163.98 | 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 38% | 92.5% | 92.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-01 | Smokin On Big Creek BBQ Contest Benefiting Operation BBQ Relief Pleasant Hill, MO | 27 / 72 (665.6688) | 43 (163.9772) | 30 (164.0116) | 11 (173.7028) | 29 (163.9772) |