Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 674.7656 at The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship — 93.7% 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.
The Cove of Craziness has 2 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 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team The Cove of Craziness has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 14 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with The Cove of Craziness on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2014, 9 years before The Cove of Craziness's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 14% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7144 | 161.1312 | 165.42 | top 40% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4284 | 162.8000 | 163.11 | top 51% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 170.8228 | 172.26 | top 18% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5484 | 158.8112 | 163.68 | top 39% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship | 2 | 33 | 0 | top 32% | 2024-06-21 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 44% | 90.9% | 90.9% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 20% | 93.7% | 93.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-21 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 75 / 172 (654.1936) | 100 (161.1312) | 83 (163.4284) | 39 (170.8228) | 99 (158.8112) |
| 2023-06-23 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 33 / 167 (674.7656) | 35 (169.7144) | 90 (162.8000) | 22 (173.7028) | 33 (168.5484) |