Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 675.3256 at Hillbilly Hog BBQ Throwdown & Fall Leaf Festival (GBC Qualifier) — 93.8% 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.
The Smoke House Bandits!!! 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 129 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 Smoke House Bandits!!! 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 8 years after The Smoke House Bandits!!! did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with The Smoke House Bandits!!! 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5716 | 165.0740 | 166.82 | top 43% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 170.8572 | 170.2628 | 170.56 | top 16% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 171.4056 | 161.7028 | 166.55 | top 27% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.0856 | 20.0000 | 92.54 | top 72% |
“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 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 60% | 93.8% | 82.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-25 | Hillbilly Hog BBQ Throwdown & Fall Leaf Festival (GBC Qualifier) Cleveland, GA | 8 / 41 (675.3256) | 20 (168.5716) | 8 (170.2628) | 3 (171.4056) | 18 (165.0856) |
| 2013-10-11 | Eastern Carolina BBQ Throw Down Rocky Mount, NC | 55 / 55 (517.6340) | 21 (165.0740) | 7 (170.8572) | 26 (161.7028) | 55 (20.0000) |