Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
96.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 694.2516 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest — 96.4% of a perfect 720.
Meat Candy Q ahead in 100% of their meetings
Meat Candy Q has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Smoke Show BBQ in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
DROPTINE SMOKE 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 78 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 DROPTINE SMOKE 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 DROPTINE SMOKE 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-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before DROPTINE SMOKE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 10 years before DROPTINE SMOKE's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1084 | 162.8228 | 166.82 | top 58% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 177.7372 | 169.1544 | 173.92 | top 26% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2744 | 168.5828 | 171.05 | top 33% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 177.7144 | 163.9656 | 172.94 | top 21% |
“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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25% | top 21% | 96.4% | 95.1% |
| 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 | 92 / 487 (686.8344) | 340 (164.5256) | 62 (174.8688) | 179 (170.2856) | 16 (177.1544) |
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 26 / 211 (694.2516) | 87 (173.1084) | 134 (169.1544) | 48 (174.2744) | 14 (177.7144) |
| 2023-09-08 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 32 / 99 (673.1084) | 63 (162.8228) | 3 (177.7372) | 40 (168.5828) | 52 (163.9656) |