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Get Your Grill On IL

Power ranking

#2663
of 2982 rated · rankings

Rating

1447
peak 1447

Contests

7
in the data

First seen

2019-09-20
latest 2025-09-19

Best ToY finish

#1236
Master 2021

Grand champs

0
0 reserve

Category wins

0
0 podiums

Overall top-10s

0
of 7 contests

Avg finish

top 88%
overall standings

Perfect 180s

0

Current form

642.36 ▲
last 5 vs career avg 637.56 (+4.80)

Walk rate

14%
contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

177.7144

Consistency

±26.45
std dev of overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Chicken
avg 164.05 · weakest Brisket (151.14)

Road miles

146
mi across 7 mapped stops · furthest 63 mi

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Storylines

⚔️ A tough matchup

IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ has come out ahead in 7 of their 7 shared contests.

Teams like this (closest power rating, IL first)

By meat

CategoryEntriesCallsWinsPodiumsBestWorstAverageAvg finish
Chicken 7 1 0 0 177.7144 153.6684 164.05 top 64%
Pork Ribs 7 0 0 0 169.7144 147.9316 159.88 top 82%
Pork 7 0 0 0 173.1200 147.9428 162.49 top 75%
Brisket 7 0 0 0 165.0972 133.1088 151.14 top 89%

“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.

By contest size

FieldContestsGCsAvg finish
Medium (20–39)20top 88%
Large (40+)50top 88%

The story so far

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

Category scores over time

Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)

Where they finish (overall)

Best vs average (by meat)

Season by season

SeasonContestsGCsCategory winsBest overallAvg overall
2025200 675.3260 663.29
2024100 659.3028 659.30
2023100 590.6288 590.63
2022100 635.2916 635.29
2021100 638.1488 638.15
2019100 612.9832 612.98

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

DateEventOverallChickenRibsPorkBrisket
2025-09-19 Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard Murphysboro, IL 46 / 56 (675.3260) 12 (176.5828) 46 (166.2516) 43 (167.3944) 51 (165.0972)
2025-08-16 Smoke N for the Kids Troy, IL 30 / 32 (651.2572) 6 (177.7144) 31 (158.2400) 22 (169.6800) 31 (145.6228)
2024-09-20 Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard Murphysboro, IL 48 / 58 (659.3028) 47 (162.2512) 32 (169.7144) 22 (173.1200) 52 (154.2172)
2023-09-21 Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard Murphysboro, IL 48 / 50 (590.6288) 46 (153.6684) 46 (152.4800) 48 (151.3716) 48 (133.1088)
2022-09-23 Murphysboro BBQ Cook-off/Praise the Lard Murphysboro, IL 38 / 46 (635.2916) 41 (155.9428) 36 (162.8456) 31 (167.3944) 44 (149.1088)
2021-09-24 Praise the Lard Murphysboro BBQ Cook-Off Murphysboro, IL 32 / 39 (638.1488) 23 (166.2400) 29 (161.6916) 31 (160.5260) 34 (149.6912)
2019-09-20 Murphysboro BBQ Cook Off Murphysboro, IL 51 / 54 (612.9832) 46 (155.9656) 52 (147.9316) 53 (147.9428) 36 (161.1432)

Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)

YearSeriesOverallChickenRibsPorkBrisket
2021 ↗ Master #1236 (60 pts) #1252 (70 pts) #1309 (60 pts) #1262 (60 pts) #1245 (60 pts)

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