American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
The health card: 4 editions on record from 2021 to 2026, in Kansas City, KS. The public page for this contest →
Latest field
Teams who come back
Not been back
Published purse
Teams who started here
Field, edition by edition
| Year | Date | Teams | Winner | Purse |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2026-09-30 | — | — | 68,425.00 |
| 2023 | 2023-09-27 | 487 | JANKY LEG BBQ | 75,940.00 |
| 2022 | 2022-09-29 | 505 | QUE U | — |
| 2021 | 2021-09-16 | 467 | LAST CALL HEROES BBQ | 60,910.00 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 322 | 505 | 64% | 164 |
| 2022 | 304 | 467 | 65% | 201 |
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 | Where | Times cooked here | Last time here | Last contest anywhere |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buckeye Barbeque | TN | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-06-12 |
| FIRE DANCER BBQ | AR | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-08-14 |
| Hoggy Style BBQ | KS | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-06-26 |
| MEAN MOE'S BBQ | ON | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-08-01 |
| NEVER EASY BBQ | IA | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-08-14 |
| Quenut BBQ | GA | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-07-09 |
| SIN CIRCLE BBQ | SD | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-07-10 |
| Sixkiller BBQ | KS | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-06-12 |
| Top Gun Barbecue | NJ | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-06-26 |
| UNFAMOUS DAVE'S | MO | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-08-21 |
| B Team BBQ | OK | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2025-07-11 |
| Hogline | WI | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2025-11-05 |
| GRINDERS BBQ KANSAS CITY | KS | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-04-10 |
| BILLY RAY BBQ | IN | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-03-20 |
| Rockin W Smokers | KS | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-03-20 |
| Sharpe's Woodshed | CA | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-01-30 |
| Chingon BBQ | TX | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2025-11-21 |
| JCs GOOD OL BOYS | KS | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2025-11-05 |
| Rub You Long Time | KS | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2025-11-05 |
| 2 GREEKS BBQ | IL | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2025-09-13 |
| The Yellow Rose Texas BBQ Company | IN | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2025-08-01 |
| CITY SLICKERS BBQ | MN | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2025-05-09 |
| BIG B'S BBQ - TX | TX | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2025-08-29 |
| OLD STYLE BBQ | KS | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-08-28 |
| BUCKSHOT BBQ - TX | TX | 2 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-07-31 |
| ACES HIGH BBQ | MN | 1 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-07-10 |
| BnB BBQ | SD | 1 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-06-05 |
| BOGGS HOG BBQ | NJ | 1 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-07-25 |
| CBF Que | NC | 1 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-07-09 |
| Clean Smoke BBQ | KS | 1 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-07-11 |
| COOKLOUNGE BBQ | BZ | 1 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-08-14 |
| Grandpa Val's BBQ | NJ | 1 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-08-08 |
| K & E's Little Smokers | FL | 1 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-07-09 |
| KEVLAR BBQ | MI | 1 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-07-31 |
| Kings BBQ Team | GA | 1 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-07-09 |
| PIG ON FIRE | SC | 1 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-07-17 |
| RJs Smokehouse | OR | 1 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-08-22 |
| SCUFFLETOWN SMOKERS | IN | 1 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-08-15 |
| SMOKING FINNS FI | LT | 1 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-05-15 |
| Steel Smoke BBQ | MN | 1 | 2022-09-29 | 2026-08-28 |
Showing the top 40 of 95.
Where your field comes from
The home state or province of every team that has cooked here. This is where the entry is, and where advertising the next one is least wasted.
| Region | Teams |
|---|---|
| KS | 494 |
| MO | 54 |
| IN | 19 |
| OK | 18 |
| MN | 18 |
| GA | 18 |
| TX | 17 |
| IA | 15 |
| NC | 13 |
| IL | 13 |
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”.