A tough matchup
4 LEGS UP BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
4 LEGS UP BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
4 LEGS UP BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
4 LEGS UP BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 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.
Triple J's BeerBQ Crew has 4 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 138 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 Triple J's BeerBQ Crew has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ 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-headThey turned up 8 years after Triple J's BeerBQ Crew did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Triple J's BeerBQ Crew 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-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 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8456 | 149.6456 | 151.11 | top 88% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5600 | 142.2172 | 150.97 | top 87% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4056 | 145.1424 | 154.26 | top 78% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6800 | 137.1428 | 150.26 | top 82% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| KS | 3 | 0 | top 83% |
| CO | 1 | 0 | top 94% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 97% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 52% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +1.1 | Blues, BBQ & Bargains | 2013-07-19 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -13.3 | Royal Gorge Holy Smoke BBQ Showdown | 2013-05-31 |
| -12.5 | Sky's the Limit BBQ Classic | 2013-09-07 |
| -12.1 | Showdown on the Plains BBQ Challenge & Air Show | 2013-09-06 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 86% | 87.8% | 84.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-09-07 | Sky's the Limit BBQ Classic Garden City, KS | 26 / 26 (612.9596) | 26 (149.6456) | 25 (158.2628) | 26 (151.9656) | 24 (153.0856) |
| 2013-09-06 | Showdown on the Plains BBQ Challenge & Air Show Scott City, KS | 27 / 28 (606.0800) | 27 (149.6456) | 28 (142.2172) | 28 (152.5372) | 18 (161.6800) |
| 2013-07-19 | Blues, BBQ & Bargains Hays, KS | 22 / 42 (631.9428) | 31 (154.8456) | 24 (160.5600) | 12 (167.4056) | 32 (149.1316) |
| 2013-05-31 | Royal Gorge Holy Smoke BBQ Showdown Canon City, CO | 31 / 33 (575.4280) | 27 (150.2856) | 31 (142.8572) | 28 (145.1424) | 32 (137.1428) |