Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
2024 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 58%.
Organizer Portal ahead in 100% of their meetings
Organizer Portal has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Off the trail for 4.9 years, then back at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides (2023-09-27).
A tougher draw than 81% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1605 power rating — a tougher draw than 81% of every rated contest in the data.
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.
Buckeye Barbecue has 3 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 122 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.
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Buckeye Barbecue on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Buckeye Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Buckeye Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Buckeye Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1084 | 155.4400 | 163.55 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 160.5488 | 164.41 | top 66% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 158.8456 | 162.09 | top 72% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7144 | 162.2856 | 163.62 | top 67% |
“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 | 2 | 0 | top 77% |
| TN | 2 | 0 | top 67% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 67% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 77% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -8 | *Mid-South BBQ Festival | 2018-10-19 |
| -6.3 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2023-09-27 |
| -2.9 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2024-10-30 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 58% | 91.5% | 91.5% |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 82% | 89% | 89% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 91% | 90.8% | 90.8% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 319 / 444 (658.7772) | 301 (165.1084) | 356 (162.2516) | 221 (168.5600) | 308 (162.8572) |
| 2024-10-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2024-04-19 | Dr. George Smith BBQ Brawl (COMPETITORS SERIES) unrated Murfreesboro, TN | 16 / 37 (506.2172) | 24 (164.5256) | 12 (171.4172) | — | — |
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 399 / 487 (640.5600) | 441 (155.4400) | 382 (160.5488) | 395 (158.8568) | 268 (165.7144) |
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2018-10-19 | *Mid-South BBQ Festival Mount Pleasant, TN | 20 / 22 (653.6568) | 15 (169.1084) | 16 (163.4172) | 19 (158.8456) | 17 (162.2856) |
| 2015-05-22 | Lewisburg Rotary Club BBQ CookOff Lewisburg, TN | — | — | — | — | — |