Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
2023 was the year it came together: 3 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 1 category win, at an average finish in the top 67%.
ELJEFE SMOKE ahead in 100% of their meetings
ELJEFE SMOKE has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Chicken is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 6.05 points below their pork, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 25%.
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.
Lone Star Q 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 130 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, 5 contests to 7, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Lone Star Q 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-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 2022, 3 years before Lone Star Q's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2015, 8 years before Lone Star Q's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 141.6572 | 157.22 | top 82% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 175.4056 | 154.8116 | 162.06 | top 66% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.5944 | 155.9428 | 163.27 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.1316 | 156.5488 | 160.41 | top 75% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MA | 2 | 0 | top 72% |
| CT | 1 | 0 | top 95% |
| ME | 1 | 0 | top 80% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 3 | 0 | top 80% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 80% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +0.8 | Somerset Sizzle | 2023-05-20 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.9 | Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 2) | 2024-04-13 |
| -9 | Trillium BBQ Throwdown | 2025-08-09 |
| -8.4 | Kora Shriners BBQ Competition | 2023-08-19 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 90% | 90.5% | 90.5% |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 95% | 86.1% | 86.1% |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 33% | top 67% | 91.6% | 90.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-09 | Trillium BBQ Throwdown 🏅 Canton, MA | 18 / 20 (651.9088) | 17 (163.4400) | 20 (157.0972) | 17 (162.2400) | 10 (169.1316) |
| 2024-04-13 | Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (DAY 2) 🏅 Bristol, CT | 35 / 37 (619.8748) | 37 (141.6572) | 33 (155.3716) | 27 (166.2972) | 34 (156.5488) |
| 2024-04-13 | Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (ONE MEAT RIBS) Bristol, CT | — | — | 13 (154.8116) | — | — |
| 2024-04-12 | Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (ONE MEAT CHICKEN) Bristol, CT | — | 13 (153.0740) | — | — | — |
| 2023-08-19 | Kora Shriners BBQ Competition 🏅 Hiram, ME | 37 / 46 (647.2800) | 20 (169.6800) | 34 (162.8572) | 43 (155.9428) | 38 (158.8000) |
| 2023-08-19 | Kora Shriners BBQ Competition (ONE MEAT RIBS) Hiram, ME | — | — | 11 (166.8228) | — | — |
| 2023-05-20 | Somerset Sizzle 🏅 Somerset, MA | 13 / 24 (659.3716) | 20 (158.2288) | 1 (175.4056) | 10 (168.5944) | 18 (157.1428) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1182 (60 pts) | #871 (158 pts) | #903 (159 pts) | #1231 (60 pts) | #1204 (60 pts) |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #1255 (60 pts) | #1219 (85 pts) | #893 (187 pts) | #1287 (60 pts) | #1296 (60 pts) |