Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
94.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 680.4800 at European Invitational Championship (COMPETITOR SERIES) — 94.5% of a perfect 720.
BBQ Symphony ahead in 100% of their meetings
BBQ Symphony has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 16.51 points below their chicken, and turns into a call 50% of the time against 67%.
Off the trail for 5 years, then back at BBQ Festival Vanamoisa (2023-08-18).
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 3,480 miles across 6 mapped stops.
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.
129 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 5 years before No Name BBQ Team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with No Name BBQ Team on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before No Name BBQ Team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before No Name BBQ Team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before No Name BBQ Team'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 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 173.1656 | 154.2628 | 165.14 | top 57% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 141.6800 | 154.55 | top 84% |
| Pork | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 176.5828 | 153.7144 | 160.46 | top 62% |
| Brisket | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 133.0628 | 148.62 | top 76% |
“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.
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -14 | Bohemian Bluegrass & BBQ | 2015-09-12 |
| -9 | *Italian Barbecue Championship 2017 | 2017-09-09 |
| -7 | BBQ Festival Vanamoisa | 2023-08-18 |
| -4.8 | Cars & BBQ Festival 2026 | 2026-08-14 |
| -4.2 | BBQ Festival 2018 | 2018-08-17 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 76% | 94.5% | 93.8% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 80% | 87.1% | 87.1% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 70% | 84.4% | 84.4% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 87% | 82.8% | 82.8% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 100% | 82.2% | 82.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-14 | Cars & BBQ Festival 2026 Tallinn, 15026 | 13 / 17 (669.5656) | 10 (170.2628) | 11 (169.6800) | 17 (160.5028) | 10 (169.1200) |
| 2026-07-17 | European Invitational Championship (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Wilhering, 4073 | 13 / 17 (680.4800) | 14 (169.6800) | 13 (167.3944) | 5 (176.5828) | 9 (166.8228) |
| 2023-08-18 | BBQ Festival Vanamoisa Saue Parish, 76505 | 12 / 15 (627.2912) | 2 (173.1656) | 14 (148.5256) | 9 (158.2400) | 14 (147.3600) |
| 2018-08-17 | BBQ Festival 2018 Vanamõisa, Saue Parish, 13522 | 7 / 10 (607.3716) | 2 (166.2972) | 9 (141.6800) | 2 (158.8572) | 6 (140.5372) |
| 2017-09-09 | *Italian Barbecue Championship 2017 Perugia, 06129 | 13 / 15 (595.9316) | 15 (154.2628) | 13 (153.7716) | 13 (154.8344) | 14 (133.0628) |
| 2015-09-12 | Bohemian Bluegrass & BBQ Naplavka, Prague, | 13 / 13 (591.9544) | 9 (157.1428) | 12 (146.2628) | 10 (153.7144) | 13 (134.8344) |