Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
96.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 692.5144 at Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 1) — 96.2% of a perfect 720.
CycloneBBQ has finished one call ahead of Tear Jerk BBQ 2 times — their closest competition in the data.
2023 was the year it came together: 4 contests, 0 Grand Championships and 0 category wins, at an average finish in the top 30%.
FIRE AT THE END OF THE DAY ahead in 100% of their meetings
FIRE AT THE END OF THE DAY has come out ahead in 6 of their 6 shared contests.
Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 7.54 points below their pork, and turns into a call 17% of the time against 50%.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Let It Smoke Barbecue in 5 of their 5 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.
78 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 9 contests to 6.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2020, 3 years before Tear Jerk BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 9 years before Tear Jerk BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Tear Jerk BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 10 contests to 6.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 6 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FOUR SMOKING GUYS | 6 | 3 | 3 | 50% | ⚔ compare |
| PADDY MCQ'S | 6 | 1 | 5 | 17% | ⚔ compare |
| Up-2 BBQ | 6 | 1 | 5 | 17% | ⚔ compare |
| FIRE AT THE END OF THE DAY | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Let It Smoke Barbecue | 5 | 5 | 0 | 100% | ⚔ compare |
| BBQ Bandits | 5 | 5 | 0 | 100% | ⚔ compare |
| Matt's Backyard BBQ | 5 | 4 | 1 | 80% | ⚔ compare |
| ELJEFE SMOKE | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| BEVERAGE BROTHERS | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | ⚔ compare |
| Uncle Pig's Barbeque Pit | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| CycloneBBQ | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9656 | 160.5028 | 166.72 | top 59% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 173.7144 | 162.8000 | 168.66 | top 41% |
| Pork | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 175.4172 | 163.9772 | 170.37 | top 35% |
| Brisket | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 146.8116 | 162.82 | top 52% |
“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 32% |
| VT | 2 | 0 | top 70% |
| RI | 1 | 0 | top 28% |
| CT | 1 | 0 | top 30% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 78% |
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 39% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 35% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2) | 2 | 5 | 0 | top 32% | 2023-09-23 |
| Green Mountain BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2) | 2 | 14 | 0 | top 70% | 2022-09-17 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +13.5 | Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 1) | 2023-09-22 |
| +9.6 | Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES | 2023-04-15 |
| +8.7 | HOGS 4 HEROES | 2023-05-06 |
| +1.4 | Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2) | 2023-09-23 |
| +0.1 | Green Mountain BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2) | 2022-09-17 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -4.6 | Green Mountain BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 1) | 2022-09-16 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50% | top 30% | 96.2% | 94.2% |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 70% | 90.5% | 90.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-23 | Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2) 🏅 Southwick, MA | 20 / 42 (675.8972) | 21 (169.1200) | 31 (162.8000) | 12 (175.4172) | 18 (168.5600) |
| 2023-09-22 | Nor'Easter BBQ Showdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 1) 🏅 Southwick, MA | 5 / 31 (692.5144) | 16 (171.9656) | 7 (173.7144) | 4 (175.4172) | 9 (171.4172) |
| 2023-05-06 | HOGS 4 HEROES 🏅 Jamestown, RI | 14 / 50 (662.8000) | 22 (165.0972) | 25 (165.7372) | 16 (168.0000) | 18 (163.9656) |
| 2023-04-15 | Southern New England Barbecue Throwdown - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES 🏅 Bristol, CT | 13 / 43 (682.2744) | 25 (169.1200) | 9 (173.1888) | 19 (169.7028) | 12 (170.2628) |
| 2022-09-17 | Green Mountain BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 2) 🏅 Braintree, VT | 16 / 26 (651.8060) | 20 (160.5028) | 12 (165.6916) | 9 (169.6916) | 20 (155.9200) |
| 2022-09-16 | Green Mountain BBQ Championship - CAMPGROUND BBQ SERIES (Day 1) 🏅 Braintree, VT | 14 / 18 (646.1716) | 13 (164.5256) | 6 (170.8572) | 10 (163.9772) | 18 (146.8116) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #494 (381 pts) | #678 (256 pts) | #703 (281 pts) | #473 (436 pts) | #560 (331 pts) |
| 2022 ↗ | Master | #785 (194 pts) | #879 (179 pts) | #726 (274 pts) | #710 (254 pts) | #922 (154 pts) |