Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
94.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 678.2172 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) — 94.2% 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.
* Sabor a Lena 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 120 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 * Sabor a Lena BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with * Sabor a Lena BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after * Sabor a Lena BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where * Sabor a Lena BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where * Sabor a Lena BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where * Sabor a Lena BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6800 | 165.6800 | 165.68 | top 70% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 172.5600 | 172.56 | top 19% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.0000 | 172.0000 | 172.00 | top 16% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 167.9772 | 167.98 | top 46% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 28% | 94.2% | 94.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-23 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 26 / 93 (678.2172) | 65 (165.6800) | 18 (172.5600) | 15 (172.0000) | 43 (167.9772) |