The one to beat
ROLL THE BONES BBQ has finished one call ahead of My Smoking Jacket 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
ROLL THE BONES BBQ has finished one call ahead of My Smoking Jacket 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
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.
My Smoking Jacket 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 151 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team My Smoking Jacket has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 10 years after My Smoking Jacket did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with My Smoking Jacket 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 2.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.4628 | 165.1428 | 166.30 | top 32% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 136.5372 | 149.98 | top 67% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3828 | 147.3940 | 153.39 | top 74% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.4172 | 143.4172 | 145.42 | top 84% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grill Games | 2 | 29 | 0 | top 76% | 2014-08-22 |
| 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 62% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 91% | 82.6% | 82.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-08-22 | Grill Games Kenosha, WI | 29 / 47 (635.3600) | 22 (165.1428) | 16 (163.4172) | 26 (159.3828) | 37 (147.4172) |
| 2013-08-23 | Grill Games Kenosha, WI | 39 / 43 (594.8112) | 7 (167.4628) | 43 (136.5372) | 40 (147.3940) | 38 (143.4172) |