Brother Luck cooks out of Four by Brother Luck in Colorado Springs, where the menu changes often enough that regulars know to ask what came in this week instead of reading the printed page. His Top Chef Season 15 run made him a known commodity. His Beat Bobby Flay win, three years before that, made him a known commodity to a wider audience.
Pulled pork sliders are not a dish that lets you fake your way through. The pork has to be smoked low and slow — six, eight, twelve hours — and the bark on the outside has to be a real crust before the inside surrenders. Bobby's pork, per the broadcast, was "tender." Tender is not a compliment for pulled pork; pulled pork is supposed to have textural contrast between the bark and the inside. Luck's had both. Bobby's had only the inside.