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 86 times in 100
Their Grand Championship at Shotgun Fred BBQ Showdown (2015-02-26) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 14-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, THE AMERICAN DREAM BBQ.
Took the Grand Championship over a 61-team field at Shotgun Fred BBQ Showdown.
95.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 689.2228 at Shotgun Fred BBQ Showdown — 95.7% of a perfect 720.
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.
Lucky Dawg BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 89 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.
6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Lucky Dawg BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Lucky Dawg BBQ did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Lucky Dawg BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Lucky Dawg BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Lucky Dawg BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Lucky Dawg BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.2972 | 174.2972 | 174.30 | top 3% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1656 | 169.1656 | 169.17 | top 23% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8572 | 170.8572 | 170.86 | top 16% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.9028 | 174.9028 | 174.90 | top 3% |
“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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 2% | 95.7% | 95.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-02-26 | Shotgun Fred BBQ Showdown Huntsville, TX | 1 / 61 (689.2228) | 2 (174.2972) | 14 (169.1656) | 10 (170.8572) | 2 (174.9028) |