Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
94.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 679.9312 at 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open — 94.4% 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.
Sugarfire 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 93 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 Sugarfire has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Sugarfire's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Sugarfire on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Sugarfire did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.2628 | 165.1200 | 165.69 | top 44% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.6684 | 160.5372 | 165.10 | top 24% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 175.4400 | 165.1428 | 170.29 | top 5% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 176.0116 | 169.7028 | 172.86 | 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 | 1 | 0 | 100% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 1% | 71.6% | 71.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-05 | Blues Brew & BBQ (NBBQL COMPETITOR Series) unrated Springfiled, MO | 9 (667.9544) | 8 (166.2628) | 10 (160.5372) | 8 (165.1428) | 2 (176.0116) |
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 9 / 606 (515.4400) | 265 (165.1200) | 146 (169.6684) | 29 (175.4400) | 122 (169.7028) |