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: 675.3024 at Tilley Harley-Davidson Biker Blues BBQ Rally and BBQ Classic — 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.
K & D Smoker 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 103 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where K & D Smoker's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after K & D Smoker did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with K & D Smoker on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where K & D Smoker's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where K & D Smoker's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where K & D Smoker's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2628 | 166.2628 | 166.26 | top 49% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.0000 | 176.0000 | 176.00 | top 6% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.7884 | 162.7884 | 162.79 | top 74% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2512 | 170.2512 | 170.25 | top 19% |
“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 19% | 93.8% | 93.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-09-20 | Tilley Harley-Davidson Biker Blues BBQ Rally and BBQ Classic Salisbury, NC | 14 / 72 (675.3024) | 35 (166.2628) | 4 (176.0000) | 53 (162.7884) | 14 (170.2512) |