Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
95.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 688.6288 at 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open — 95.6% of a perfect 720.
IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of HIGH DESERT HOLY SMOKE 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.
The DIM Fiefelmann Cookers 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 85 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 The DIM Fiefelmann Cookers has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 12 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after The DIM Fiefelmann Cookers did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with The DIM Fiefelmann Cookers 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7372 | 166.8456 | 169.91 | top 37% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5716 | 166.2516 | 169.31 | top 38% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 159.9428 | 164.37 | top 57% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 177.7028 | 161.6912 | 172.18 | top 26% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 32% | 95.6% | 93.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-24 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN | 52 / 92 (663.3484) | 49 (166.8456) | 54 (166.2516) | 35 (168.5600) | 62 (161.6912) |
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 27 / 552 (688.6288) | 59 (173.7372) | 74 (172.5716) | 260 (164.6172) | 15 (177.7028) |
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 59 / 165 (675.3600) | 77 (169.1428) | 70 (169.1200) | 141 (159.9428) | 15 (177.1544) |