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 High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off (2021-04-09) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 8-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, BOOMERANG BBQ.
97.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 701.1200 at High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off — 97.4% of a perfect 720.
Boom Chicka Cow Cow ahead in 100% of their meetings
Boom Chicka Cow Cow has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Chingon BBQ in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Finished 3 of 54 at their very first tracked contest, 15th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ (2020-08-07).
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.
Team GMG 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 73 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.
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Team GMG 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 4.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 7 years before Team GMG's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2013, 8 years before Team GMG'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 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 179.4400 | 159.9772 | 169.13 | top 46% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 172.0000 | 159.3484 | 167.11 | top 53% |
| Pork | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 177.1428 | 166.2628 | 171.70 | top 28% |
| Brisket | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 173.7028 | 156.5600 | 165.26 | top 49% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| KS | 2 | 0 | top 80% |
| TX | 1 | 1 | top 6% |
| OK | 1 | 0 | top 6% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 1 | top 6% |
| Large (40+) | 3 | 0 | top 55% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +19.2 | 15th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ | 2020-08-07 |
| +18.9 | High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off | 2021-04-09 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -7.5 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue-OPEN CONTEST | 2021-09-16 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 33% | top 55% | 97.4% | 92.8% |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 6% | 95.5% | 95.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-16 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue-INVITATIONAL CONTEST 🏅 unrated Kansas City, KS | 173 / 185 (655.2340) | 158 (164.5256) | 173 (159.3484) | 68 (171.9772) | 176 (159.3828) |
| 2021-09-16 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue-OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 308 / 467 (649.0628) | 339 (159.9772) | 240 (166.2628) | 207 (166.2628) | 345 (156.5600) |
| 2021-04-09 | High Plains Wine, Brews & BBQ Cook Off Lubbock, TX | 1 / 18 (701.1200) | 1 (179.4400) | 9 (170.8344) | 2 (177.1428) | 2 (173.7028) |
| 2020-08-07 | 15th Annual HANOR Smokin' Red Dirt BBQ 🏅 Enid, OK | 3 / 54 (687.3712) | 11 (172.5600) | 9 (172.0000) | 10 (171.4056) | 9 (171.4056) |