Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 668.0576 at 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational — 92.8% of a perfect 720.
BUTCHER BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
BUTCHER BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of WEST TEXAS PIT MASTERS 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.
Jack Wagon Grillers 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 114 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 Jack Wagon Grillers has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head17 contests to 4: their number has had years to settle where Jack Wagon Grillers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head18 contests and no Grand Championship yet.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Jack Wagon Grillers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 168.5828 | 164.5828 | 166.86 | top 28% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 141.7028 | 157.85 | top 52% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1428 | 141.1430 | 158.71 | top 52% |
| Brisket | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 177.1772 | 148.0004 | 161.29 | top 40% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 42% | 92.8% | 88.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-11-07 | World Food Championships - World Barbecue Championship(Competitor's Series) Las Vegas, NV | — | — | 20 (169.1200) | 11 (169.1428) | 48 (155.9884) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 277 / 535 (636.5256) | 103 (168.5828) | 489 (141.7028) | 227 (162.2512) | 150 (163.9888) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 61 / 174 (668.0576) | 106 (164.5828) | 93 (163.9888) | 110 (162.3088) | 5 (177.1772) |
| 2013-03-22 | Best of the Basin Barbeque Championship Midland, TX | 23 / 59 (613.1432) | 3 (167.4284) | 20 (156.5714) | 51 (141.1430) | 33 (148.0004) |