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 67 times in 100
Their Grand Championship at Spit in the Hills (2019-05-04) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 33-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, FASTLANE BBQ CREW.
94.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 678.9028 at Spit in the Hills — 94.3% of a perfect 720.
Finished 1 of 21 at their very first tracked contest, Spit in the Hills (2019-05-04).
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.
Big Don's Smoked Meats has 2 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 87 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 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before Big Don's Smoked Meats's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Big Don's Smoked Meats on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2015, 4 years before Big Don's Smoked Meats's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 171.9884 | 165.7256 | 168.86 | top 37% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 170.8800 | 162.3316 | 166.61 | top 37% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 165.1084 | 163.4400 | 164.27 | top 45% |
| Brisket | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 172.5944 | 167.4628 | 170.03 | top 25% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 53% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 1 | top 5% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 100% | top 29% | 94.3% | 93% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-14 | The Chidlow BBQ Festival 2019 Chidlow, 6558 | 9 / 17 (660.6284) | 11 (165.7256) | 10 (162.3316) | 8 (165.1084) | 6 (167.4628) |
| 2019-05-04 | Spit in the Hills Chidlow,Western, 6556 | 1 / 21 (678.9028) | 2 (171.9884) | 3 (170.8800) | 9 (163.4400) | 3 (172.5944) |