American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST
2022-09-29 – 2022-10-02 · Kansas City, KS · 📍 Kansas City, KS 66111 · State championship
Reps: BOB MCKINNON, CLARA WILLIAMS, FORREST BRUCE, JONATHAN B WILLIAMS, JULIE COOK, KAREN JANE WILLIAMS, LARRY HADLEY, LARRY VOTH, LYNDA VOTH, RALPH WILLIAMS, RUSTY COOK, TERRI MCKINNON
Grand Champion: QUE U (707.4056) · 505 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 LOOT N' BOOTY BBQ
Entries
Top score
Winning margin
Field average
Perfect 180s
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
Field spread
How hot was the win?
Traveled in
Came back for more
Form held
Field strength
Storylines
🧳 Out-of-towners took the title
QUE U took the Grand Championship home to WI.
🔥 A day of perfect scores
15 perfect 180s were scored at this contest.
📸 Photo finishes
Chicken places 1–2: SLAPS BBQ and TASTE OF GRACE tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 2–3: TASTE OF GRACE and Damn Yankee Texas Barbeque tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 4–5: THE BBQ BUS and THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE SMOKE tied on 179.4400 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
🛡️ Back to defend
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: LAST CALL HEROES BBQ (won 2021).
🃏 An upset on the books
QUE U came in rated below the field's top team, GETTIN' BASTED, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 28-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Score curves (score by finishing position — steep cliffs mean a spread field, flat lines a knife fight)
Category showdown (top / average / median score per meat)
Score distribution
Biggest rating movers (power-rating points won and lost at this contest)
Did form hold? (pre-contest rating vs overall finish — ratings called it if the dots climb to the right)
Where the field came from (home regions on file)
This contest over the years full contest page →
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-16 | Kansas City, KS | Kansas Speedway | 467 | 709.1428 | LAST CALL HEROES BBQ | HOGLINE |
| 2022-09-29 ← this one | Kansas City, KS | Kansas City, KS 66111 | 505 | 707.4056 | QUE U | LOOT N' BOOTY BBQ |
| 2023-09-27 | Kansas City, KS | Kansas City, KS 66111 | 487 | 705.1200 | JANKY LEG BBQ | MACHETE BOYS BBQ |
| 2024-10-30 | Kansas City, KS | Kansas Speedway | 444 | 710.8228 | Chunky BBQ | Bushmaster BBQ |
| 2025-11-05 | Kansas City, KS | Kansas Speedway | 401 | 708.5488 | Wag's Backwoods BBQ | OLD VIRGINIA SMOKE |
| 2026-09-30 | Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 179.4400 | 178.8800 |
| Pork Ribs | 180.0000 | 178.8800 | 177.7144 |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 180.0000 | 178.8572 |
| Brisket | 180.0000 | 179.4400 | 178.2972 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
505 entries · top 707.4056 · median 667.9080
Chicken
503 entries · top 180.0000 · median 167.4172 · 🔥 perfect 180
Pork Ribs
504 entries · top 180.0000 · median 167.3828 · 🔥 perfect 180
Pork
500 entries · top 180.0000 · median 167.4056 · 🔥 perfect 180
Brisket
499 entries · top 180.0000 · median 165.1428 · 🔥 perfect 180