Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
94.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 677.6456 at 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open — 94.1% 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.
Plowboys BBQ has 3 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 62 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 Plowboys BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 11 years after Plowboys BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Plowboys BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head4 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 7 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 168.0000 | 172.19 | top 24% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 167.9656 | 159.4172 | 164.74 | top 31% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1428 | 158.8456 | 164.37 | top 50% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 166.8228 | 168.35 | top 30% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| MO | 2 | 0 | top 18% |
| IA | 1 | 0 | top 23% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 28% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 4% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +15.8 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open | 2013-10-03 |
| +11.3 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | 2015-07-31 |
| +8.3 | Burg Fest BBQ Contest | 2014-09-26 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 23% | 92.8% | 92.8% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 32% | 92.1% | 92.1% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 4% | 94.1% | 94.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-31 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Des Moines, IA | 7 / 30 (667.9312) | 7 (172.0228) | 6 (167.9656) | 23 (161.1200) | 14 (166.8228) |
| 2014-09-26 | Burg Fest BBQ Contest Warrensburg, MO | 7 / 22 (663.3828) | 10 (168.0000) | 5 (166.8344) | 15 (158.8456) | 6 (169.7028) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 22 / 535 (677.6456) | 10 (176.5600) | 261 (159.4172) | 29 (173.1428) | 82 (168.5256) |