American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest
The health card: 4 editions on record from 2021 to 2026, in Kansas City, KS. The public page for this contest →
Latest field
Field trend
Teams who come back
Not been back
Published purse
Teams who started here
Field, edition by edition
| Year | Date | Teams | Winner | Purse |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Sep 30, 2026 | 158 | B's Que | 37,965.00 |
| 2023 | Sep 27, 2023 | 211 | FIRE AT THE END OF THE DAY | 37,965.00 |
| 2022 | Sep 29, 2022 | 249 | QUE U | — |
| 2021 | Sep 16, 2021 | 185 | TRIPLE H BBQ | 37,965.00 |
Who came back
Of the teams at one edition, how many were on the board at the next — and how many were brand new to your contest.
| Edition | Returned | Of | Return rate | New faces |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 62 | 211 | 29% | 96 |
| 2023 | 127 | 249 | 51% | 84 |
| 2022 | 119 | 185 | 64% | 130 |
The teams who stopped coming
Teams who have cooked this contest before, were not at the most recent edition, and have competed somewhere in the last eighteen months — so they are still active, they just are not here. Sorted by how many times they used to come, which is the order worth working down.
| Team | Times cooked here | Last time here | Last contest anywhere |
|---|---|---|---|
| 913 BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-09-30 |
| CHUNKY BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-24 |
| ELITE BBQ SMOKERS | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-23 |
| Heavy Smoke BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-09-25 |
| KEEP CALM & SAUCE ON | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-23 |
| Mulkey's BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-02 |
| PIGLITICALLY INCORRECT BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-23 |
| RUB MY RACK | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-09-30 |
| SmokinGhost BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-02 |
| TEXAS OIL DUST | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-09 |
| Texas Smoke Whisperer | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-09-30 |
| THE REAL SMOKIN ACES | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-09-30 |
| THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE SMOKE | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-09-25 |
| Piggin' Whiskey | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2025-08-02 |
| Bushmaster BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-17 |
| Organizer Portal | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-03-20 |
| Sons of a Brisket | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-09-30 |
| ALL FORKED UP FOR Q | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-09-30 |
| GETTIN' SAUCED | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-09-30 |
| InTheRedZoneBBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2025-11-05 |
| REDNECK SCIENTIFIC | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-09-30 |
| Code 3 Spices | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-08-15 |
| ATLANTA BBQ STORE | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2025-07-10 |
| Darty-Q | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2025-05-16 |
| AMERICAN HEROES BBQ | 2 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-08-28 |
| Ash Kickin' BBQ | 2 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-05-08 |
| Bearded Monkeys Twisted Q | 2 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-06-12 |
| Bleacher Bums BBQ | 2 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-09-25 |
| Eggspert BBQ | 2 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-08-15 |
| HOLD YOUR HORSES BBQ | 2 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-23 |
| Kith n' Kin | 2 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-09-25 |
| Phoenix BBQ | 2 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-08-28 |
| PIRATES OF BAR-B-QUE BAY | 2 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-09-30 |
| PORKRASTINATORS | 2 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-06-13 |
| PRAIRIE SMOKE & SPICE BBQ | 2 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-09-04 |
| QUE U | 2 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-09 |
| RENEGADE BBQ | 2 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-17 |
| Shiggin aint easy | 2 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-09 |
| TIRE SMOKE BBQ | 2 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-09 |
| WHEN PIGS DIE | 2 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-09-25 |
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Check your date
Team home regions are inferred from team names and where they cook, and a team is “still active” if it has appeared on any results board in the last eighteen months. Everything here comes from the public listings and results at kcbs.us; contests that never published results are invisible to it, so read low numbers as “not on file” before reading them as “did not happen”.