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 93 times in 100
Their Grand Championship at BBQ on the Bricks (2017-08-25) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 7-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, DIRT ROAD BBQ.
Took the Grand Championship over a 34-team field at BBQ on the Bricks.
96.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 695.9544 at BBQ on the Bricks — 96.7% 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.
Thunder Pig 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 85 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Thunder Pig BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Thunder Pig 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 Thunder Pig BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Thunder Pig BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Thunder Pig BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Thunder Pig BBQ did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 177.7144 | 177.7144 | 177.71 | top 3% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 172.5600 | 172.5600 | 172.56 | top 9% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.8572 | 174.8572 | 174.86 | top 15% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 170.8228 | 170.82 | top 15% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 3% | 96.7% | 96.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-08-25 | BBQ on the Bricks Kearney, NE | 1 / 34 (695.9544) | 1 (177.7144) | 3 (172.5600) | 5 (174.8572) | 5 (170.8228) |