Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 664.5028 at 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open — 92.3% of a perfect 720.
BUTCHER BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
BUTCHER BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Poke It & Smoke It BBQ in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
J3 BBQ 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 112 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 J3 BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head11 contests to 3: their number has had years to settle where J3 BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 89 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with J3 BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after J3 BBQ did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1200 | 161.6684 | 163.40 | top 62% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 164.0000 | 167.98 | top 37% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5372 | 155.3484 | 158.61 | top 79% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 177.1544 | 165.1200 | 171.80 | top 18% |
“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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 49% | 92.3% | 91.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 197 / 606 (664.5028) | 324 (163.4056) | 290 (164.0000) | 417 (159.9428) | 13 (177.1544) |
| 2015-10-02 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 149 / 187 (662.7200) | 167 (161.6684) | 106 (167.3944) | 164 (160.5372) | 46 (173.1200) |
| 2015-09-04 | City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival Bedford, TX | 24 / 70 (658.1484) | 31 (165.1200) | 4 (172.5600) | 57 (155.3484) | 19 (165.1200) |