Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 65 times in 100
Their Grand Championship at New Holland Summer Fest (2013-08-23) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 35-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, 4:20 Q.
Took the Grand Championship over a 71-team field at New Holland Summer Fest.
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.
Off the trail for 4.2 years, then back at Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) (2017-10-27).
Finished 1 of 71 at their very first tracked contest, New Holland Summer Fest (2013-08-23).
A tougher draw than 85% of rated fields
The fields they enter average a 1614 power rating — a tougher draw than 85% of every rated contest in the data.
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.
Drilling & Grilling BBQ Team has 3 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 82 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.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Drilling & Grilling 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 2015, 3 years before Drilling & Grilling BBQ Team's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 33% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| 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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) | 2 | 8 | 0 | top 42% | 2018-10-26 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +19.2 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) | 2017-10-27 |
| +16.3 | New Holland Summer Fest | 2013-08-23 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -3.6 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES FULL) | 2018-10-26 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 90.8% | 90.8% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 8% | 97.3% | 97.3% |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 1% | 93.8% | 93.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-26 | 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) |
| 2017-10-27 | 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) |
| 2013-08-23 | New Holland Summer Fest New Holland, PA | 1 / 71 (675.4056) | 21 (162.8344) | 1 (172.0000) | 3 (169.1428) | 2 (171.4284) |