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 92 times in 100
Their Grand Championship at McGregor Lions Club Barrels & BBQ (2019-11-15) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 8-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, THE AMERICAN DREAM BBQ.
They've won two or more meats on the same day 1 time — the best of them 2 category wins at McGregor Lions Club Barrels & BBQ (2019-11-15).
95.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 687.9428 at McGregor Lions Club Barrels & BBQ — 95.5% 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.
Chat N Choo BBQ has 3 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 77 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 — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after Chat N Choo BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Chat N Choo BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2013, 6 years before Chat N Choo BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 7 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 176.5944 | 163.9772 | 170.67 | top 30% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 173.7028 | 166.2744 | 168.94 | top 33% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8456 | 159.9428 | 164.54 | top 56% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 177.7028 | 166.8112 | 171.02 | top 26% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 1 | top 4% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 43% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival | 2 | 22 | 0 | top 43% | 2019-08-30 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +20.6 | McGregor Lions Club Barrels & BBQ | 2019-11-15 |
| +6.4 | Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival | 2019-08-30 |
| +3.3 | *Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival | 2018-08-31 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 50% | top 21% | 95.5% | 94.8% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 47% | 91.7% | 91.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-15 | McGregor Lions Club Barrels & BBQ Belton, TX | 1 / 24 (687.9428) | 1 (176.5944) | 2 (173.7028) | 17 (159.9428) | 1 (177.7028) |
| 2019-08-30 | Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival 🏅 Bedford, TX | 22 / 58 (677.1200) | 19 (171.4400) | 29 (166.2744) | 20 (170.8456) | 20 (168.5600) |
| 2018-08-31 | *Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival Bedford, TX | 35 / 74 (660.4456) | 40 (163.9772) | 31 (166.8344) | 46 (162.8228) | 30 (166.8112) |