Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
95.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 687.8856 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 95.5% of a perfect 720.
Off the trail for 5.1 years, then back at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest (2023-09-27).
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.
JDQ 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 113 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 JDQ 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-headLevel with JDQ 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-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 4 years before JDQ'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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 173.7372 | 170.8228 | 172.28 | top 23% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 171.4400 | 171.71 | top 21% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 163.4056 | 167.11 | top 53% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 139.9660 | 157.11 | top 53% |
“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 | 1 | 0 | top 17% |
| MS | 1 | 0 | top 70% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 70% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 17% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 17% | 95.5% | 95.5% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 70% | 90.1% | 90.1% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 85 / 487 (687.8856) | 178 (170.8228) | 143 (171.9772) | 174 (170.8228) | 58 (174.2628) |
| 2018-08-17 | *Downtown BBQ Showdown Hattiesburg, MS | 21 / 30 (648.5488) | 3 (173.7372) | 4 (171.4400) | 21 (163.4056) | 28 (139.9660) |
| 2016-11-11 | *Town of Mt. Pleasant Fall Festival & First Annual Polar Pig Cook-Off Mt. Pleasant, NC | — | — | — | — | — |