Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
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High-water mark
642.3428career-best overall
178.4% of a perfect 360
Their best day on record: 642.3428 at The Finals — 178.4% of a perfect 360.
Backyard
2019-11-29
Teams like this (closest power rating)
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.
BBQ-SP SMOKEHOUSE 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 111 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.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2013, 6 years before BBQ-SP SMOKEHOUSE's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
“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.
The story so far (10 numbers that describe this team)