Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 670.1940 at 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST — 93.1% 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.
Hot Chihuahua 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 107 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 Hot Chihuahua BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head13 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Hot Chihuahua BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2014, 5 years before Hot Chihuahua BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Hot Chihuahua BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 14% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Hot Chihuahua BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9884 | 167.9884 | 167.99 | top 38% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 163.4172 | 163.42 | top 60% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 166.8228 | 166.82 | top 45% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9656 | 171.9656 | 171.97 | top 20% |
“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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 10% | — | — |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-12 | 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 45 / 468 (502.1368) | 179 (167.9884) | 279 (163.4172) | 210 (166.8228) | 92 (171.9656) |