Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
95.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 687.4172 at 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational — 95.5% of a perfect 720.
The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
PITMAKER - BBQ INNOVATION has 1 rated contest — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 110 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team PITMAKER - BBQ INNOVATION has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head17 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where PITMAKER - BBQ INNOVATION's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1565 at their best, 60 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after PITMAKER - BBQ INNOVATION did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with PITMAKER - BBQ INNOVATION on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7144 | 165.1200 | 169.42 | top 34% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 171.4400 | 172.00 | top 21% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7028 | 157.6800 | 161.69 | top 69% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 163.9772 | 170.27 | top 27% |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 27% | 95.5% | 93.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 232 / 552 (659.3372) | 274 (165.1200) | 76 (172.5600) | 416 (157.6800) | 229 (163.9772) |
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 20 / 165 (687.4172) | 31 (173.7144) | 45 (171.4400) | 104 (165.7028) | 19 (176.5600) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 ↗ | Master | #1471 (175 pts) | #1666 (150 pts) | #1653 (150 pts) | #1668 (150 pts) | #1518 (180 pts) |