Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
94.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 683.3716 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 94.9% of a perfect 720.
iBQ'n ahead in 100% of their meetings
iBQ'n has come out ahead in 7 of their 7 shared contests.
Chicken is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 11.79 points below their brisket, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 14%.
Off the trail for 2.3 years, then back at *BBQ & BREWS (2017-07-21).
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 3,035 miles across 10 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 801 miles to 10th Annual Roberts Ranch Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ.
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.
128 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Boss BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 16 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than Boss BBQ has cooked, 6 to 10, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Boss BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 4 years before Boss BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iBQ'n | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| THE REAL SMOKIN ACES | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| PapaDads BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| BAD HABIT BBQ | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.0856 | 138.2972 | 152.54 | top 81% |
| Pork Ribs | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.3088 | 144.4916 | 155.89 | top 68% |
| Pork | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2744 | 143.3600 | 156.46 | top 75% |
| Brisket | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 146.2628 | 164.32 | top 46% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MI | 5 | 0 | top 84% |
| KS | 2 | 0 | top 56% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 4 | 0 | top 92% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 54% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Silver Lake Apple BBQ Festival | 2 | 24 | 0 | top 71% | 2018-09-14 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +12.5 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2023-09-27 |
| +2.9 | *Silver Lake Apple BBQ Festival | 2018-09-14 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -12.3 | Silver Lake Sand Dunes Apple & BBQ Festival | 2019-09-13 |
| -12 | *BBQ & BREWS | 2017-07-21 |
| -10 | Silver Lake Sand Dunes BBQ Competition | 2021-09-10 |
| -9.6 | *Silver Lake Apple BBQ Festival | 2017-09-08 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 56% | 94.9% | 94% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 88% | 85.4% | 85.4% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 94% | 82.4% | 82.4% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 50% | 88.1% | 88.1% |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 94% | 84% | 84% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-07 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival 🏅 Lawrenceville, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 133 / 487 (683.3716) | 329 (165.0856) | 71 (174.3088) | 184 (170.2744) | 67 (173.7028) |
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 178 / 211 (669.5540) | 204 (159.9312) | 68 (173.1200) | 174 (165.6684) | 96 (170.8344) |
| 2021-09-10 | Silver Lake Sand Dunes BBQ Competition 🏅 Mears, MI | 22 / 25 (614.6288) | 24 (143.3372) | 23 (151.9200) | 21 (155.9544) | 15 (163.4172) |
| 2019-09-13 | Silver Lake Sand Dunes Apple & BBQ Festival 🏅 Mears, MI | 33 / 35 (593.0172) | 34 (142.8344) | 34 (144.5600) | 34 (143.3600) | 20 (162.2628) |
| 2018-09-14 | *Silver Lake Apple BBQ Festival Mears, MI | 24 / 48 (634.2056) | 24 (157.1084) | 28 (149.6800) | 18 (165.1084) | 20 (162.3088) |
| 2017-09-08 | *Silver Lake Apple BBQ Festival Silver Lake, MI | 26 / 28 (605.1204) | 27 (138.2972) | 28 (144.4916) | 26 (150.8572) | 7 (171.4744) |
| 2017-07-21 | *BBQ & BREWS Birch Run, MI | 35 / 37 (604.5600) | 23 (161.1544) | 29 (153.1428) | 35 (144.0000) | 30 (146.2628) |
| 2015-04-17 | 10th Annual Roberts Ranch Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ Enid, OK | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2013-11-15 | The National BBQ Cup (GBC Qualifier) Cumming, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #1955 (60 pts) | #2049 (60 pts) | #2026 (60 pts) | #2029 (60 pts) | #1836 (85 pts) |
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #2922 (53 pts) | #2908 (53 pts) | #2912 (53 pts) | #2908 (53 pts) | #1615 (158 pts) |