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: 687.3940 at 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- INVITATIONAL CONTEST — 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.
Alexander Family BBQ 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 119 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 Alexander Family BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head25 contests to 3: their number has had years to settle where Alexander Family BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Alexander Family BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 172.5484 | 174.55 | top 14% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 172.0000 | 174.28 | top 17% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1084 | 163.9428 | 166.53 | top 59% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8112 | 169.7256 | 170.27 | top 41% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 23% | 95.5% | 95.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-12 | 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- INVITATIONAL CONTEST 🏅 unrated Kansas City, KS | 46 / 135 (687.3940) | 16 (176.5600) | 42 (172.0000) | 81 (169.1084) | 78 (169.7256) |
| 2019-09-12 | 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 57 / 468 (683.8624) | 76 (172.5484) | 15 (176.5600) | 272 (163.9428) | 113 (170.8112) |
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