Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 670.8228 at Tilley Harley-Davidson Biker Blues BBQ Rally and BBQ Classic — 93.2% 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.
Smokin' Hillbillys 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 125 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 2.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smokin' Hillbillys on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Smokin' Hillbillys did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Smokin' Hillbillys's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Smokin' Hillbillys's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 167.9656 | 169.69 | top 38% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2856 | 147.4060 | 154.85 | top 76% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2856 | 169.6684 | 169.98 | top 29% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8344 | 146.7772 | 156.81 | top 66% |
“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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 87.8% | 87.8% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 25% | 93.2% | 93.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-09-19 | Tilley Harley-Davidson Biker Blues BBQ Rally Salisbury, NC | 57 / 64 (631.8172) | 35 (167.9656) | 61 (147.4060) | 19 (169.6684) | 61 (146.7772) |
| 2013-09-20 | Tilley Harley-Davidson Biker Blues BBQ Rally and BBQ Classic Salisbury, NC | 18 / 72 (670.8228) | 16 (171.4172) | 41 (162.2856) | 20 (170.2856) | 26 (166.8344) |