BRUTUS AND COMPANY

BRUTUS AND COMPANY is a competition barbecue team with 29 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2013 and 2019. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the Ohio Smoke Meat Festival (2013). They are ranked #1485 of 6,491 teams in the KCBS power rankings.

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At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

#1,485

of 6,491 rated · rankings

Rating

1565

peak 1593 · rated over 28 contests1 invitational or side-series contest not counted

Contests

in the data

First seen

May 17, 2013

latest Jul 12, 2019 · 6.2 years on the trail

Best ToY finish

#1095

Master 2013 · every season

Grand champs

0 reserve · wins it all 3% of the time

Category wins

15 podiums

Overall top-10s

31% of 29 contests

Best top-10 run

straight overall top-10s

Avg finish

top 43%

overall standings

Best overall

697.7028 / 720

Master · Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival

Perfect 180s

2 🔥

Current form

651.67 ▼

last 5 Master vs avg 666.32 (-14.65)

Walk rate

69%

contests with a top-10 call

Best single call

180 🔥

Brisket · Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival

Consistency

±15.79

spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)

Strongest meat

Chicken

avg 169.80 · weakest Pork Ribs (163.24)

Road miles

5,503

across 29 mapped stops · furthest 624 mi

Schedule strength

38%

of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1551)

Purse competed for

$6,000

listed at 1 contest — purses, not winnings

State championships

0 🏅

won from 3 state-championship entries

Master avg

666.32 / 720

29 Master contests · 1 GC

Storylines (17 found in their record)

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

Perfect scores on the board

2 perfect 180s

2 perfect 180s in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, across 2 different meats.

Chicken ×1
Brisket ×1

Giant slayer

35 teams beaten in one weekend

Took the Grand Championship over a 35-team field at Ohio Smoke Meat Festival.

Oct 18, 2013

Happy hunting ground

Top 20% average finish here

Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival is their spot: an average finish in the top 20% across 4 visits.

4 visits
best finish 4th
average top 20%

A multi-meat day

1 contest with 2+ category wins

They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival (Oct 14, 2016).

Chicken 1st
Brisket 1st

They almost always walk

69% of contests with a top-10 call

A call in 20 of 29 contests

A top-10 category call in 69% of their 29 contests — they get to the stage more often than not.

High-water mark

697.7028 career-best overall

96.9% of a perfect 720

Their best day on record: 697.7028 at Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival — 96.9% of a perfect 720.

Master
Oct 16, 2015

The one to beat

3× one call ahead of them

SLIPPERY PETE'S BBQ has finished one call ahead of BRUTUS AND COMPANY 3 times — their closest competition in the data.

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Their season

2013 1 Grand Championship

2013 was the year it came together: 5 contests, 1 Grand Championship and 1 category win, at an average finish in the top 30%.

5 contests
2 overall top-10s
1 category win
average top 30%

The weak link

−6.6 points behind their best meat

Pork Ribs is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 6.56 points below their chicken, and turns into a call 17% of the time against 48%.

Pork Ribs avg 163.24
Chicken avg 169.80
5 calls in 29 entries

The drought

24 contests since the last title

Their last Grand Championship came at Ohio Smoke Meat Festival on Oct 18, 2013 — 24 contests and 13 years ago.

last GC Oct 18, 2013
13 years ago

A strong matchup

8–3 ahead in the head-to-head

Ahead in 73% of their meetings

They've finished ahead of FOOMANCHOO BBQ in 8 of their 11 shared contests.

Going the wrong way

-26 rating points in a year

The rating has slipped 26 points across 3 contests since Jul 13, 2018 — from 1592 down to 1565.

3 contests since Jul 13, 2018
now 1565

Looking over their shoulder

2× one call behind them

SMOKIN' 4-PLAY BBQ has landed one call behind them 2 times.

An October team

Top 28% average finish in October

Something about October: average finish in the top 28% across 9 contests, versus top 43% the rest of the year.

9 October contests
top 43% the rest of the year

The long haul

5,503 road miles between contests

Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 5,503 miles across 29 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 624 miles to 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational.

29 mapped stops
furthest 624 mi

The metronome

±2.19% swing around their own average

Their overall lands within ±2.19% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.

averages 92.5% of a perfect score
29 contests

A standing appointment

5 years running at one contest

They've cooked Marietta River City BBQ every year from 2015 to 2019 — the contest they never miss.

5 visits in all
best finish 5th

Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)

Year	Series	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
2013 ↗	Master	#1095 (257 pts)	#1406 (182 pts)	#931 (337 pts)	#1123 (267 pts)	#1027 (292 pts)

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1565 power rating

Contests: 26
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 12%
Peak: 1574

Careers of much the same size, 26 contests to 29, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.

rated over 26 contests
last seen Sep 23, 2022

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#1,482 of the rated field

1566 power rating

Contests: 23
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 0%
Peak: 1584

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#1,488 of the rated field

1565 power rating

Contests: 39
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 28%
Peak: 1591

Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.

rated over 39 contests
last seen Mar 27, 2021

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STRESS RELIEF BBQ

#1,489 of the rated field

1565 power rating

Contests: 18
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 17%
Peak: 1566

This is the highest they've ever been rated, 18 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.

rated over 18 contests
last seen Jun 22, 2019

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AGAINST THE GRAIN BBQ

#1,483 of the rated field

1566 power rating

Contests: 12
GCs: 0
Top-10s: 25%
Peak: 1566

Level with BRUTUS AND COMPANY on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.

rated over 12 contests
last seen Jan 27, 2023

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LUCKY 13 BARBEQUE

#1,484 of the rated field

1565 power rating

Contests: 13
GCs: 1
Top-10s: 38%
Peak: 1572

Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 4 years before BRUTUS AND COMPANY's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.

rated over 12 contests

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Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

Opponent	Meetings	Ahead	Behind	Win rate
SLIPPERY PETE'S BBQ	18	2	16	11%	⚔ compare
HISTORIC BBQ	17	4	13	24%	⚔ compare
SUCKA BONE BBQ TEAM	15	10	5	67%	⚔ compare
Smitty's Real Pit BBQ	14	6	8	43%	⚔ compare
FOOMANCHOO BBQ	11	8	3	73%	⚔ compare
HIGH ON THE HOG OHIO	11	8	3	73%	⚔ compare
BARK BROTHERS BBQ	11	7	4	64%	⚔ compare
SPITTIN' FEATHERS BBQ	11	3	8	27%	⚔ compare
GREY STREET BBQ	11	0	11	0%	⚔ compare
TEAM RINE-O	9	6	3	67%	⚔ compare
WeQ4U	9	1	8	11%	⚔ compare
Backwoods Grillin'	8	8	0	100%	⚔ compare
ELEGANTLY VIOLENT BBQ	8	6	2	75%	⚔ compare
BURNING PIG BBQ	8	5	3	63%	⚔ compare
DUB TOWN SMOKERS	8	5	3	63%	⚔ compare

By meat

Category	Entries	Calls	Wins	Podiums	Best	Worst	Average	Avg finish
Chicken	29	14	2	5	180 🔥	153.1426	169.80	top 37%
Pork Ribs	29	5	2	3	176.5944	149.0972	163.24	top 57%
Pork	29	9	0	1	176.5600	142.8112	164.43	top 53%
Brisket	29	14	3	6	180 🔥	158.2972	168.86	top 35%

“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.

By field size and state

By contest size

Field	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
Small (<20 teams)	3	0	top 38%
Medium (20–39)	18	1	top 43%
Large (40+)	8	0	top 44%

By state / province (where the contests were held)

Where	Contests	GCs	Avg finish
OH	19	1	top 41%
IN	3	0	top 56%
KY	2	0	top 40%
MO	2	0	top 24%
WV	1	0	top 56%
TN	1	0	top 64%
VA	1	0	top 43%

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

Contest	Visits	Best	Avg finish	Last visit
Marietta River City BBQ	5	5	top 47%	Apr 26, 2019
Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival	4	4	top 20%	Oct 20, 2017
Ohio Veterans Barbecue Cook-Off	2	16	top 69%	Jul 12, 2019
Ohio Veterans Barbecue Cook-Off	2	17	top 48%	Jul 13, 2018

More numbers

Busiest season 2016 5 contests

Contests a season 4.1 across 7 seasons in the data

Most contests held in OH 19 of 29 contests · 7 states in all

Contests visited 20 4 of them more than once

First title Oct 18, 2013 Ohio Smoke Meat Festival

Opponents faced 956 finished ahead 1,043 times, behind 587

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

20191 milestone

Jul 12 Most recent contest Ohio Veterans Barbecue Cook-Off

20181 milestone

May 18 25th tracked contest PigMania Lima State Championship BBQ & Music Festival

20171 milestone

Oct 20 Peak power rating (1593) Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival

20161 milestone

Oct 14 First multi-meat day Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival

20152 milestones

Jul 10 First perfect 180 (Chicken) 9th Ohio Veterans BBQ Cookoff
Oct 16 Career-best overall score697.7028 Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival

20141 milestone

Oct 24 10th tracked contest Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY)

20138 milestones

May 17 First tracked contest Buckeye State BBQ Championship
May 17 First call Buckeye State BBQ Championship
Jun 14 First category win (Pork Ribs) Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
Jun 14 First overall top-10 Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
Jun 14 First overall past 90% of a perfect score658.8570 Sam's Club National BBQ Tour
Oct 18 First overall podium Ohio Smoke Meat Festival
Oct 18 First Grand Championship Ohio Smoke Meat Festival
Oct 18 Biggest field won (35 teams) Ohio Smoke Meat Festival

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

Swing	Contest	Date
+15.4	Ohio Smoke Meat Festival	Oct 18, 2013
+12.6	Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival	Oct 16, 2015
+11.2	Sam's Club National BBQ Tour	Jun 14, 2013
+11	Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival	Oct 14, 2016
+8.9	Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival	Oct 20, 2017

📉 Toughest weekends

Swing	Contest	Date
-13.2	Ohio Veterans Barbecue Cook-Off	Jul 12, 2019
-13.2	Marietta River City BBQ	Apr 26, 2019
-5.5	Smokin on the Water 2	Apr 30, 2016
-4	Thunder in the Park BBQ	Aug 30, 2014
-3.3	Ohio Veterans Barbecue Cook-Off	Jul 7, 2017

Scores over time (% of a perfect score, averaged over 5 contests — tap a meat to add it)

Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)

Where they finish (overall)

Best vs average (by meat)

How entries end (by meat)

Season by season

Season	Contests	GCs	Top-10s	Category wins	Walk rate	Avg finish	Best overall (% of perfect)	Avg overall (% of perfect)
2019	2	0	0	0	50%	top 88%	88.8%	88.2%
2018	3	0	1	0	67%	top 50%	92.4%	92.1%
2017	4	0	2	2	50%	top 40%	94.8%	92.6%
2016	5	0	2	3	60%	top 39%	95.6%	94.1%
2015	5	0	2	1	80%	top 39%	96.9%	94%
2014	5	0	0	0	60%	top 43%	94.9%	92.5%
2013	5	1	2	1	100%	top 30%	95.7%	91.6%

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

Date	Event	Overall	Chicken	Ribs	Pork	Brisket
Jul 12, 2019	Ohio Veterans Barbecue Cook-Off 🏅 Kettering, OH	30 / 33 (639.3028)	23 (163.9656)	30 (154.2628)	27 (161.6572)	26 (159.4172)
Apr 26, 2019	Marietta River City BBQ 🏅 Marietta, OH	22 / 26 (630.1940)	13 (165.1772)	21 (155.3712)	26 (142.8112)	6 (166.8344)
Jul 13, 2018	Ohio Veterans Barbecue Cook-Off Kettering, OH	17 / 40 (665.0400)	17 (167.3828)	19 (165.0972)	24 (162.2628)	13 (170.2972)
Jun 8, 2018	Marietta River City BBQ Marietta, OH	6 / 11 (659.3600)	5 (170.2856)	4 (166.8572)	7 (159.9428)	8 (162.2744)
May 18, 2018	PigMania Lima State Championship BBQ & Music Festival 🏅 Lima, OH	17 / 32 (664.4688)	9 (168.5372)	22 (163.9888)	18 (165.1200)	16 (166.8228)
Oct 20, 2017	Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival Nelsonville, OH	7 / 39 (682.7884)	4 (175.4056)	33 (155.9428)	5 (173.1428)	1 (178.2972)
Jul 7, 2017	Ohio Veterans Barbecue Cook-Off Kettering, OH	22 / 41 (654.1484)	17 (167.4400)	18 (167.4172)	27 (159.9428)	29 (159.3484)
Jun 16, 2017	Almost Heaven BBQ Bash Weston, WV	32 / 57 (654.7312)	27 (167.3828)	49 (149.0972)	11 (173.1428)	23 (165.1084)
Jun 9, 2017	Marietta River City BBQ Marietta, OH	5 / 16 (675.9200)	7 (167.9656)	1 (176.5600)	7 (163.9772)	10 (167.4172)
Oct 14, 2016	Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival Nelsonville, OH	5 / 37 (688.5944)	1 (177.7028)	24 (161.7372)	10 (169.1544)	1 (180)
Jul 8, 2016	Ohio Veterans Barbecue Cook-Off Kettering, OH	16 / 34 (671.8860)	19 (166.2400)	21 (166.8344)	12 (171.4172)	18 (167.3944)
Jun 10, 2016	Marietta River City BBQ Marietta, OH	7 / 20 (681.1428)	8 (170.2628)	14 (164)	6 (172.5600)	3 (174.3200)
Apr 30, 2016	Smokin on the Water 2 Liberty, IN	24 / 35 (668.5032)	26 (168.0116)	15 (168.5488)	23 (165.6800)	22 (166.2628)
Apr 29, 2016	Smokin on the Water Liberty, IN	11 / 33 (677.0744)	6 (176)	24 (160.5716)	26 (162.7884)	1 (177.7144)
Oct 16, 2015	Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival Nelsonville, OH	4 / 36 (697.7028)	21 (166.8456)	2 (176.5944)	3 (176.5600)	3 (177.7028)
Oct 2, 2015	Jim Beam BBQ Classic Springfield, KY	28 / 45 (662.2516)	9 (173.1428)	41 (155.4288)	36 (163.4056)	13 (170.2744)
Jul 10, 2015	9th Ohio Veterans BBQ Cookoff Kettering, OH	11 / 39 (678.2284)	1 (180)	24 (163.9884)	30 (158.8000)	4 (175.4400)
Jun 12, 2015	Marietta River City BBQ Marietta, OH	5 / 17 (682.2400)	2 (179.4400)	15 (157.6800)	8 (170.2744)	5 (174.8456)
May 29, 2015	PigMania Lima Lima, OH	17 / 27 (663.9316)	11 (171.9656)	22 (161.1316)	15 (168)	19 (162.8344)
Oct 24, 2014	Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitation Barbecue (JUDGES BY INVITATION ONLY) Lynchburg, TN	59 / 92 (659.9312)	63 (163.9656)	42 (168.5600)	76 (156.5256)	28 (170.8800)
Oct 17, 2014	Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival Nelsonville, OH	13 / 36 (664.4460)	15 (167.4172)	21 (161.6688)	11 (167.9772)	8 (167.3828)
Oct 2, 2014	35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO	34 / 165 (683.3828)	68 (170.2628)	91 (166.8228)	78 (168)	9 (178.2972)
Oct 2, 2014	35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO	154 / 552 (667.4512)	155 (169.1428)	102 (170.8572)	415 (157.7140)	111 (169.7372)
Aug 30, 2014	Thunder in the Park BBQ Connersville, IN	19 / 29 (653.5772)	2 (175.4172)	22 (158.2744)	26 (159.3484)	17 (160.5372)
Oct 18, 2013	Ohio Smoke Meat Festival Nelsonville, OH	1 / 35 (689.1084)	8 (171.9656)	11 (169.1772)	7 (171.4056)	3 (176.5600)
Sep 6, 2013	Sam's Club National BBQ Tour (Regional) Chesapeake, VA	13 / 30 (654.1944)	10 (169.1428)	10 (165.7144)	23 (154.8000)	12 (164.5372)
Jul 12, 2013	Ohio Veterans Barbeque Cook-off Kettering, OH	11 / 41 (659.3716)	3 (176)	26 (158.8000)	15 (166.2744)	26 (158.2972)
Jun 14, 2013	Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Lexington, KY	5 / 27 (658.8570)	11 (164.5714)	1 (169.1428)	11 (162.2856)	6 (162.8572)
May 17, 2013	Buckeye State BBQ Championship West Chester, OH	21 / 35 (635.4282)	32 (153.1426)	27 (153.7142)	9 (163.4286)	12 (165.1428)

An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.

BRUTUS AND COMPANY

At a glance (the record in numbers)

Power ranking

Rating

Contests

First seen

Best ToY finish

Grand champs

Category wins

Overall top-10s

Best top-10 run

Avg finish

Best overall

Perfect 180s

Current form

Walk rate

Best single call

Consistency

Strongest meat

Road miles

Schedule strength

Purse competed for

State championships

Master avg

Storylines (17 found in their record)

Perfect scores on the board

Giant slayer

Happy hunting ground

A multi-meat day

They almost always walk

High-water mark

The one to beat

Their season

The weak link

The drought

A strong matchup

Going the wrong way

Looking over their shoulder

An October team

The long haul

The metronome

A standing appointment

Team of the Year (rank per category by season — the year links to the full board on kcbs.us)

Teams like this (closest power rating)

Familiar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)

By meat

By field size and state

By contest size

By state / province (where the contests were held)

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

More numbers

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

Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)

📈 Biggest rating jumps

📉 Toughest weekends

Scores over time (% of a perfect score, averaged over 5 contests — tap a meat to add it)

Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)

Where they finish (overall)

Best vs average (by meat)

How entries end (by meat)

Season by season

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

Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)