High-water mark
92.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 667.9768 at 28th Annual Cherokee Strip Cookoff — 92.8% of a perfect 720.
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- 2014-09-19
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 667.9768 at 28th Annual Cherokee Strip Cookoff — 92.8% of a perfect 720.
BUFFALO'S BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
BUFFALO'S BBQ has come out ahead 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.
HEAD PROPERTIES LLC 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 101 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.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after HEAD PROPERTIES LLC did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with HEAD PROPERTIES LLC on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ 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 | 170.2512 | 149.1092 | 161.51 | top 60% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0000 | 141.0744 | 156.15 | top 59% |
| Pork | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 158.2628 | 165.50 | top 45% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0228 | 153.7144 | 160.38 | top 60% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OK | 2 | 0 | top 39% |
| TX | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 55% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 24% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +10.8 | 28th Annual Cherokee Strip Cookoff | 2014-09-19 |
| +1 | Cherokee Strip Cook-Off | 2013-09-13 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.4 | BBQ Battle Royale at Taste of Dallas | 2015-06-13 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 100% | 85.1% | 85.1% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 24% | 92.8% | 92.8% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 55% | 90.3% | 90.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-13 | BBQ Battle Royale at Taste of Dallas Dallas, TX | 18 / 18 (612.4236) | 18 (149.1092) | 18 (141.0744) | 8 (168.5256) | 17 (153.7144) |
| 2014-09-19 | 28th Annual Cherokee Strip Cookoff Ponca City, OK | 10 / 41 (667.9768) | 13 (170.2512) | 17 (164.0000) | 8 (169.7028) | 12 (164.0228) |
| 2013-09-13 | Cherokee Strip Cook-Off Ponca City, OK | 18 / 33 (650.2284) | 16 (165.1772) | 12 (163.3828) | 23 (158.2628) | 19 (163.4056) |