Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
2022 was the year it came together: 4 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 54%.
BREW 'N' BAR-B-QUE ahead in 100% of their meetings
BREW 'N' BAR-B-QUE has come out ahead in 5 of their 5 shared contests.
Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 13.80 points below their pork ribs, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 40%.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of YARDHOGS BBQ in 5 of their 5 shared contests.
BREW 'N' BAR-B-QUE ahead 100% of the time
Even in their strongest meat, BREW 'N' BAR-B-QUE has out-cooked them in 5 of 5 shared pork ribs entries.
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 15,540 miles across 10 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 3,885 miles to Warrior BBQ Ribs Championship - Ribs 1 (One Meat Ribs).
Their overall lands within ±1.72% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.
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.
128 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Smokers Anonymous has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1520 at their best, 59 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than Smokers Anonymous has cooked, 6 to 10, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smokers Anonymous on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2020, 5 years before Smokers Anonymous's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Smokers Anonymous's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YARDHOGS BBQ | 5 | 5 | 0 | 100% | ⚔ compare |
| SMF | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| Overland Pig Committee | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| Why Not Smoke | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| Grilligans Island | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| Last Years Leftovers | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| Bubba's Pig-a-licious | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| POWER I BBQ | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| Stewey Magoos BBQ | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| This is Nice | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| SMOKING JOE'S BARBERQ | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| BREW 'N' BAR-B-QUE | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Hoggy Style BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| KC Rib doctor | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| MAD MUTT'S BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8456 | 150.8116 | 162.44 | top 63% |
| Pork Ribs | 10 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 173.7144 | 152.5144 | 164.32 | top 64% |
| Pork | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7372 | 151.9656 | 159.39 | top 74% |
| Brisket | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1200 | 141.6916 | 150.53 | top 83% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KS | 5 | 0 | top 75% |
| HI | 1 | 0 | top 89% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 89% |
| Large (40+) | 5 | 0 | top 75% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shawnee Great Grillers | 3 | 52 | 0 | top 77% | 2025-09-26 |
| Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship | 2 | 47 | 0 | top 72% | 2022-09-23 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +0.3 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship | 2022-09-23 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -12.4 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship (TEAM & JUDGES ARE FULL-WAITLIST ONLY) | 2021-09-24 |
| -8.8 | Shawnee Great Grillers | 2023-09-22 |
| -8.6 | Warrior BBQ's "The Great Hawaiian Smokeout" | 2023-11-10 |
| -5.7 | Shawnee Great Grillers | 2025-09-26 |
| -3.8 | Shawnee Great Grillers | 2024-09-27 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 78% | 89.3% | 89.3% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 71% | 89.4% | 89.4% |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33% | top 86% | 87.1% | 86.7% |
| 2022 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 75% | top 54% | 90.7% | 90.7% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 91% | 86.2% | 86.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-26 | Shawnee Great Grillers 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 52 / 67 (643.2912) | 33 (167.4056) | 35 (165.6800) | 60 (155.9312) | 59 (154.2744) |
| 2024-09-27 | Shawnee Great Grillers 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 52 / 73 (643.8400) | 27 (170.8456) | 70 (152.5144) | 58 (159.3600) | 42 (161.1200) |
| 2023-11-10 | Warrior BBQ's "The Great Hawaiian Smokeout" 🏅 Honolulu, HI | 16 / 18 (621.6000) | 14 (159.3944) | 8 (168.5484) | 17 (151.9656) | 17 (141.6916) |
| 2023-11-10 | Warrior BBQ's "The Great Hawaiian Smokeout" (ONE MEAT RIBS) Honolulu, HI | — | — | 11 (164.5600) | — | — |
| 2023-09-22 | Shawnee Great Grillers 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 61 / 73 (627.3260) | 70 (150.8116) | 55 (160.5600) | 27 (169.7372) | 67 (146.2172) |
| 2022-11-12 | Warrior BBQ Ribs Championship - Ribs 2 (One Meat Ribs ) Honolulu, HI | — | — | 2 (173.7144) | — | — |
| 2022-11-12 | Warrior BBQ Ribs Championship - Ribs 3 (One Meat Ribs) Honolulu, HI | — | — | 10 (163.3944) | — | — |
| 2022-11-11 | Warrior BBQ Ribs Championship - Ribs 1 (One Meat Ribs) Honolulu, HI | — | — | 7 (166.2856) | — | — |
| 2022-09-23 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 47 / 87 (652.9716) | 48 (164.5256) | 23 (170.8460) | 49 (163.3944) | 64 (154.2056) |
| 2021-09-24 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship (TEAM & JUDGES ARE FULL-WAITLIST ONLY) 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 78 / 86 (620.4000) | 54 (161.6456) | 69 (157.1316) | 76 (155.9656) | 80 (145.6572) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1067 (88 pts) | #1106 (98 pts) | #736 (247 pts) | #1136 (83 pts) | #1113 (83 pts) |