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
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 | 360 | Smokey Bey's Barbecue | 68,425.00 |
| 2023 | Sep 27, 2023 | 487 | JANKY LEG BBQ | 75,940.00 |
| 2022 | Sep 29, 2022 | 505 | QUE U | — |
| 2021 | Sep 16, 2021 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 194 | 486 | 40% | 166 |
| 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 | Times cooked here | Last time here | Last contest anywhere |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bohica BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-06-05 |
| Chillin N Grillin N Iowa BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-07-17 |
| CHUNKY BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-24 |
| Cow Creek BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-09-25 |
| DUSTY ROADS BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-06-05 |
| ELITE BBQ SMOKERS | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-23 |
| Heavy Smoke BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-09-25 |
| HUNKA HUNKA BURNIN' RUB | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-06-26 |
| Lb Town KC BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-06-26 |
| Matty Macks | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-16 |
| Mulkey's BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-02 |
| NECTAR OF THE HOGS | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-09-11 |
| PIGLITICALLY INCORRECT BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-23 |
| RUM N' SMOKE BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-07-10 |
| SMOKE IN THE EYE | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-08-28 |
| Spitballs BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-06-26 |
| TEAM CRAWFORD | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-23 |
| TEXAS OIL DUST | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-09 |
| THE SMOKING HILLS | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-06-05 |
| 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 |
| Rollin' Smoke BBQ Texas | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2025-11-21 |
| DOUBLE DUN RANCH BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-04-24 |
| MISSISSIPPI MEAT MAFIA | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-04-24 |
| AWESOME RACKS COOKIN CREW | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-16 |
| TAILGATE GUYS BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-10-23 |
| Barton BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-04-10 |
| BLACKOUT BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-03-27 |
| Smokesdidier bbq | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-08-07 |
| Organizer Portal | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2026-03-20 |
| Phil the Grill | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2025-11-21 |
| MARBURG BROTHERS BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2025-11-05 |
| Slow & Easy | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2025-11-05 |
| Damn Yankee Texas Barbeque | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2025-11-05 |
| All Fired Up and Kicking Ash MO | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2025-11-05 |
| Two Pig Mafia | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2025-11-05 |
| OINK-A-DOODLE-MOO 1559 | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2025-11-05 |
| Smokin Trees BBQ | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2025-11-05 |
| The Porkscrews | 3 | 2023-09-27 | 2025-11-05 |
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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”.