Drilling & Grilling BBQ Team

Drilling & Grilling BBQ Team is a competition barbecue team with 3 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2013 and 2018. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the New Holland Summer Fest (2013).

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Rating

1533

Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 3

Contests

in the data

First seen

Aug 23, 2013

latest Oct 26, 2018 · 5.2 years on the trail

Grand champs

0 reserve

Category wins

3 podiums

Overall top-10s

of 3 contests

Best top-10 run

straight overall top-10s

Avg finish

top 29%

overall standings

Best overall

700.5484 / 720

Master · Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)

Walk rate

33%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

176.5600

Pork · Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)

Consistency

±19.17

spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Pork Ribs

avg 171.04 · weakest Chicken (167.98)

Road miles

653

across 3 mapped stops · furthest 653 mi

Schedule strength

89%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1623)

Master avg

676.53 / 720

3 Master contests · 1 GC

Storylines (6 found in their record)

Each card leads with the number behind the story, straight from their results.

Against the odds

35-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings

The ratings favoured the top seed the other 65 times in 100

Their Grand Championship at New Holland Summer Fest (Aug 23, 2013) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 35-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, 4:20 Q.

Giant slayer

71 teams beaten in one weekend

Took the Grand Championship over a 71-team field at New Holland Summer Fest.

Aug 23, 2013

High-water mark

700.5484 career-best overall

97.3% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 700.5484 at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) — 97.3% of a perfect 720.

Master
Oct 27, 2017

The comeback

4.2 yrs off the trail, then back

Off the trail for 4.2 years, then back at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) (Oct 27, 2017).

last seen Aug 23, 2013
back Oct 27, 2017

Announced themselves early

1st at their very first contest

Finished 1 of 71 at their very first tracked contest, New Holland Summer Fest (Aug 23, 2013).

Aug 23, 2013
71-team field

They cook the hard rooms

1623 average field rating faced

A tougher draw than 89% of rated fields

The fields they enter average a 1623 power rating — a tougher draw than 89% of every rated contest in the data.

3 rated contests

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Wins	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	3	0	0	0	173.7028	162.8344	167.98	top 37%
Pork Ribs	3	1	1	1	175.4056	165.7028	171.04	top 28%
Pork	3	1	0	1	176.5600	161.0972	168.93	top 31%
Brisket	3	1	0	1	174.8800	159.4056	168.57	top 33%

“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.

Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)

Contest	Visits	Best	GCs	Avg finish	Last visit
Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL)	2	8	0	top 42%	Oct 26, 2018

More numbers

Contests a season 1 across 3 seasons in the data

Most contests held in TN 2 of 3 contests · 2 states in all

Contests visited 2 1 of them more than once

First title Aug 23, 2013 New Holland Summer Fest

Opponents faced 236 finished ahead 180 times, behind 84

Longest layoff 4.2 yrs Aug 23, 2013 → Oct 27, 2017

Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)

20181 milestone

Oct 26 Most recent contest Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL)

20173 milestones

Oct 27 Career-best overall score700.5484 Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)
Oct 27 Career-best single call (Pork)176.5600 Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)
Oct 27 Peak power rating (1536) Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)

20138 milestones

Aug 23 First tracked contest New Holland Summer Fest
Aug 23 First call New Holland Summer Fest
Aug 23 First category win (Pork Ribs) New Holland Summer Fest
Aug 23 First overall top-10 New Holland Summer Fest
Aug 23 First overall podium New Holland Summer Fest
Aug 23 First Grand Championship New Holland Summer Fest
Aug 23 First overall past 90% of a perfect score675.4056 New Holland Summer Fest
Aug 23 Biggest field won (71 teams) New Holland Summer Fest

Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
Oct 26, 2018	Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) Lynchburg, TN	78 / 102 (653.6228)	53 (167.4172)	68 (165.7028)	78 (161.0972)	81 (159.4056)
Oct 27, 2017	Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN	8 / 95 (700.5484)	29 (173.7028)	15 (175.4056)	11 (176.5600)	17 (174.8800)
Aug 23, 2013	New Holland Summer Fest New Holland, PA	1 / 71 (675.4056)	21 (162.8344)	1 (172)	3 (169.1428)	2 (171.4284)