Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
95.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 690.8228 at 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST — 95.9% of a perfect 720.
GETTIN' BASTED ahead in 100% of their meetings
GETTIN' BASTED has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of SLOW PORKIN in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
IOWA'S SMOKEY D'S BBQ has landed one call behind them 2 times.
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.
SMOKIN' HOOKS has 2 rated contests — 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 97 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 SMOKIN' HOOKS has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2016, 3 years before SMOKIN' HOOKS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 5 years before SMOKIN' HOOKS's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SMOKIN' HOOKS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 6 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2744 | 155.9544 | 160.96 | top 80% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 178.8800 | 163.4288 | 173.15 | top 27% |
| Pork | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 178.2972 | 159.9312 | 171.12 | top 31% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 161.6456 | 171.27 | top 32% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) | 2 | 139 | 0 | top 62% | 2018-09-15 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 50% | top 20% | 95.9% | 95.7% |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 62% | 92.8% | 92.2% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-12 | 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- INVITATIONAL CONTEST 🏅 unrated Kansas City, KS | 47 / 135 (687.3832) | 110 (166.2744) | 27 (173.7144) | 58 (170.8344) | 15 (176.5600) |
| 2019-09-12 | 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 20 / 468 (690.8228) | 253 (164.5488) | 1 (178.8800) | 29 (175.4056) | 90 (171.9884) |
| 2018-09-15 | 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 183 / 467 (668.4456) | 391 (157.0744) | 16 (176.5600) | 334 (159.9312) | 31 (174.8800) |
| 2018-09-14 | 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL) unrated Kansas City, KS | 139 / 164 (659.3260) | 163 (155.9544) | 137 (163.4288) | 6 (178.2972) | 150 (161.6456) |
| 2017-11-08 | World Barbecue Championship Orange Beach, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #1372 (145 pts) | #1593 (120 pts) | #890 (345 pts) | #1578 (120 pts) | #1348 (170 pts) |