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94.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 680.4684 at 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- INVITATIONAL CONTEST — 94.5% 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.
Operation Barbecue Relief 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 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.
7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Operation Barbecue Relief's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Operation Barbecue Relief on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Operation Barbecue Relief's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Operation Barbecue Relief's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Operation Barbecue Relief's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1084 | 161.6340 | 165.37 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 177.7028 | 166.2628 | 171.98 | top 25% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1084 | 160.5372 | 162.82 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 168.5600 | 170.84 | 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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 37% | 94.5% | 94.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-12 | 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 72 / 468 (492.4684) | 313 (161.6340) | 212 (166.2628) | 242 (165.1084) | 151 (168.5600) |
| 2019-09-12 | 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- INVITATIONAL CONTEST 🏅 unrated Kansas City, KS | 80 / 135 (680.4684) | 90 (169.1084) | 6 (177.7028) | 127 (160.5372) | 42 (173.1200) |