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94.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 679.3372 at 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL) — 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.
Buns n Roses CookTeam 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 95 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.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2018.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Buns n Roses CookTeam on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Buns n Roses CookTeam's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head8 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Buns n Roses CookTeam's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2015, 3 years before Buns n Roses CookTeam's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1200 | 163.9772 | 164.55 | top 71% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 169.7256 | 170.85 | top 31% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 170.2628 | 171.69 | top 29% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 169.1200 | 169.40 | top 42% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) | 2 | 95 | 0 | top 44% | 2018-09-15 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 44% | 94.4% | 94% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-15 | 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 141 / 467 (673.6456) | 282 (163.9772) | 134 (169.7256) | 114 (170.2628) | 120 (169.6800) |
| 2018-09-14 | 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL) unrated Kansas City, KS | 95 / 164 (679.3372) | 134 (165.1200) | 54 (171.9772) | 54 (173.1200) | 96 (169.1200) |