Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 666.2972 at 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open — 92.5% 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.
Great Souther Bank's Coach's Decision BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 118 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 Great Souther Bank's Coach's Decision BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head11 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Great Souther Bank's Coach's Decision BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 13 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 11 years after Great Souther Bank's Coach's Decision BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Great Souther Bank's Coach's Decision BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Great Souther Bank's Coach's Decision BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.4172 | 151.4172 | 151.42 | top 82% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.0344 | 176.0344 | 176.03 | top 2% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8800 | 170.8800 | 170.88 | top 10% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9656 | 167.9656 | 167.97 | top 17% |
“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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 12% | 92.5% | 92.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 66 / 535 (666.2972) | 437 (151.4172) | 10 (176.0344) | 52 (170.8800) | 90 (167.9656) |