Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 675.9888 at Veterans of Foreign Wars Colorado KCBS Pitmaster BBQ Contest — 93.9% of a perfect 720.
Colorado Bulldawg BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
Colorado Bulldawg BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Brisket is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 12.23 points below their chicken, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 50%.
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 4,182 miles across 8 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 1,758 miles to Somerset Sizzle.
Their overall lands within ±2.09% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.
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.
143 rated teams sit within a point of this rating, so a place on this list means the numbers match — no more than that.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team BOVINE INTERVENTION has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 6 contests to 8, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BOVINE INTERVENTION on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 6 contests to 8, 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 BOVINE INTERVENTION's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROCKET BOYS PYRO BBQ | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 176.5828 | 166.8228 | 171.62 | top 37% |
| Pork Ribs | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 171.4172 | 145.0516 | 160.31 | top 68% |
| Pork | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 177.1544 | 148.5372 | 161.58 | top 67% |
| Brisket | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4400 | 151.9312 | 159.39 | top 74% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CO | 5 | 0 | top 69% |
| MA | 1 | 0 | top 83% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 5 | 0 | top 74% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 62% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +4.3 | Veterans of Foreign Wars Colorado KCBS Pitmaster BBQ Contest | 2023-05-27 |
| +1.8 | Beat the Heat BBQ & Brews | 2023-08-11 |
| +0.2 | Colorado BBQ Challenge | 2023-06-16 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.3 | Wild West BBQ Cook-Off | 2022-05-06 |
| -8.5 | Somerset Sizzle | 2023-05-20 |
| -8.4 | Art of Barbeque | 2023-06-30 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67% | top 68% | 93.9% | 91.3% |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 91% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-11 | Beat the Heat BBQ & Brews 🏅 Alamosa, CO | 14 / 27 (666.7656) | 17 (167.4056) | 12 (165.6800) | 13 (168.5372) | 16 (165.1428) |
| 2023-07-29 | Colorado Rib Challenge (ONE MEAT RIBS) Castle Rock, CO | — | — | 3 (171.4172) | — | — |
| 2023-06-30 | Art of Barbeque 🏅 Sterling, CO | 32 / 35 (652.4112) | 3 (176.5828) | 33 (159.3828) | 32 (162.2284) | 34 (154.2172) |
| 2023-06-16 | Colorado BBQ Challenge 🏅 Frisco, CO | 26 / 42 (655.8628) | 11 (173.1428) | 16 (169.6916) | 28 (161.0972) | 36 (151.9312) |
| 2023-05-27 | Veterans of Foreign Wars Colorado KCBS Pitmaster BBQ Contest 🏅 Castle Rock, CO | 19 / 37 (675.9888) | 7 (173.7256) | 30 (157.6688) | 3 (177.1544) | 20 (167.4400) |
| 2023-05-20 | Somerset Sizzle 🏅 Somerset, MA | 20 / 24 (635.8060) | 9 (172.0344) | 21 (157.0628) | 22 (151.9200) | 21 (154.7888) |
| 2022-07-30 | Colorado Rib Challenge at the Douglas County Fair & Rodeo - One Meat Rib Castle Rock, CO | — | — | 13 (145.0516) | — | — |
| 2022-05-06 | Wild West BBQ Cook-Off 🏅 Lamar, CO | 30 / 33 (634.7084) | 22 (166.8228) | 29 (156.5256) | 31 (148.5372) | 20 (162.8228) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #557 (317 pts) | #362 (622 pts) | #436 (554 pts) | #445 (467 pts) | #583 (302 pts) |
| 2022 ↗ | Master | #1612 (58 pts) | #1298 (73 pts) | #994 (158 pts) | #1622 (58 pts) | #1242 (83 pts) |