Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
94.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 676.4568 at 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(INVITATIONAL) — 94.0% of a perfect 720.
Off the trail for 4.9 years, then back at Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out (2021-09-17).
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.
Team Price Chopper 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 105 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 Team Price Chopper has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Team Price Chopper did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 14% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Team Price Chopper 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 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2856 | 168.5488 | 171.60 | top 27% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 160.5488 | 163.77 | top 64% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 176.5600 | 170.8228 | 173.50 | top 18% |
| Brisket | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.6800 | 162.8228 | 164.16 | top 61% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| MO | 2 | 0 | top 35% |
| KS | 1 | 0 | top 53% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 44% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 39% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 44% | 93.6% | 93.6% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 53% | 94% | 94% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 26% | 92.9% | 92.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-17 | Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out 🏅 Kearney, MO | 7 / 16 (673.6000) | 6 (168.5488) | 10 (164.5256) | 2 (176.5600) | 10 (163.9656) |
| 2016-10-28 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(INVITATIONAL) unrated Kansas City, KS | 95 / 180 (676.4568) | 45 (174.2856) | 118 (166.2400) | 35 (173.1084) | 154 (162.8228) |
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 144 / 552 (669.0288) | 97 (171.9772) | 345 (160.5488) | 117 (170.8228) | 197 (165.6800) |