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Scratch N Dent BBQ
Scratch N Dent BBQ is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2019 and 2022. They have won 1 Grand Championship, at the Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) (2019). They finished #917 in the 2021 Master Series Team of the Year standings.
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At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating 1506
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 32 invitational or side-series contests not counted
First seen Oct 25, 2019
latest Sep 29, 2022 · 2.9 years on the trail
Grand champs 1
0 reserve · wins it all 20% of the time
Overall top-10s 1
20% of 5 contests
Avg finish top 65%
overall standings
Best overall 657.0056 / 720
Walk rate 20%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency ±3.79
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat Chicken
avg 167.64 · weakest Pork Ribs (163.97)
Road miles 540
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 535 mi
Schedule strength 51%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1566)
Purse competed for $104K
listed at 3 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships 0 🏅
won from 3 state-championship entries
Master avg 654.45 / 720
4 Master contests · 0 GCs
Backyard (3-meat) avg 526.86 / 540
1 Backyard (3-meat) contest · 1 GC
These overall scores sit on different scales (Master out of 720, Backyard (3-meat) out of 540), so they're kept separate — averaging them together would be misleading.
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here .
Storylines (5 found in their record)
Each card leads with the number behind the story, straight from their results.
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Against the odds
30-in-100
shot on pre-contest ratings
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 70 times in 100
Their Grand Championship at Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) (Oct 25, 2019) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 30-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, LEE LA Q
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Giant slayer
42
teams beaten in one weekend
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A tough matchup
4–0
behind in the head-to-head
913 BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
913 BBQ
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The comeback
1.9 yrs
off the trail, then back
Off the trail for 1.9 years , then back at American Royal World Series of Barbecue-INVITATIONAL CONTEST (Sep 16, 2021).
last seen Oct 25, 2019 back Sep 16, 2021
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Announced themselves early
1st
at their very first contest
Finished 1 of 42 at their very first tracked contest, Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) (Oct 25, 2019).
Oct 25, 2019 42-team field
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
2022 ↗ Master
#986 (120 pts) #1051 (120 pts) #1107 (120 pts) #1046 (120 pts) #1021 (120 pts)
2021 ↗ Master
#917 (120 pts) #978 (120 pts) #1023 (120 pts) #960 (120 pts) #957 (120 pts)
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Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Scratch N Dent BBQ, each with one reason worth a look.
Scratch N Dent BBQ has 3 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 109 rated teams sit within a point of it.
MOKAN BBQ MOB
#2,963 of the rated field
1507
power rating
Contests 5
GCs 0
Top-10s 20%
Peak 1511
0–1 in 1 shared contest (0% to Scratch N Dent BBQ)
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Scratch N Dent BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
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Gladiator BBQ
#2,966 of the rated field
1507
power rating
Contests 6
GCs 0
Top-10s 17%
Peak 1517
1–0 in 1 shared contest (100% to Scratch N Dent BBQ)
Careers of much the same size, 6 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
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Twisted Smoke
#2,972 of the rated field
1506
power rating
Contests 5
GCs 0
Top-10s 20%
Peak 1507
Level with Scratch N Dent BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
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FOUR GUYS PORKIN
#2,957 of the rated field
1507
power rating
Contests 5
GCs 0
Top-10s 0%
Peak 1508
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
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Comparrillas
#2,983 of the rated field
1506
power rating
Contests 5
GCs 0
Top-10s 20%
Peak 1506
Both teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
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BOSSMAN BAR-B-QUE
#2,965 of the rated field
1507
power rating
Contests 5
GCs 0
Top-10s 0%
Peak 1507
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
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By meat
“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 state / province (where the contests were held)
Where Contests GCs Avg finish
KS 4 0 top 80% TN 1 1 top 2%
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
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Busiest season
2022
2 contests
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Contests a season
1.7
across 3 seasons in the data
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Most contests held in
KS
4 of 5 contests · 2 states in all
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Contests visited
3
2 of them more than once
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First title
Oct 25, 2019
Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL)
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Opponents faced
709
finished ahead 307 times, behind 1,136
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Longest layoff
1.9 yrs
Oct 25, 2019 → Sep 16, 2021
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — 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)
2022 2 0 0 0
0%
top 85%
91.3%
90.6%
2021 2 0 0 0
0%
top 76%
91.2%
91.2%
2019 1 1 1 1
100%
top 2%
97.6%
97.6%
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Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
Date Event Overall Chicken Ribs Pork Brisket
Sep 29, 2022
American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS 376 / 505 (647.8972) 406 (159.9772) 449 (155.9544) 271 (166.2856) 245 (165.6800)
Sep 29, 2022
American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST unrated Kansas City, KS 237 / 249 (657.0056) 219 (163.9772) 167 (168.5372) 245 (157.6684) 169 (166.8228)
Sep 16, 2021
American Royal World Series of Barbecue-OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS 276 / 467 (656.4796) 221 (166.8456) 280 (163.9656) 253 (164.5256) 282 (161.1428)
Sep 16, 2021
American Royal World Series of Barbecue-INVITATIONAL CONTEST 🏅 unrated Kansas City, KS 171 / 185 (656.4340) 113 (169.6800) 171 (159.4172) 162 (163.9540) 151 (163.3828)
Oct 25, 2019
Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) (JUDGES FULL) Lynchburg, TN 1 / 42 (526.8572) 2 (177.7372) 8 (171.9772) 1 (177.1428) —
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
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