Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 667.3144 at 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL) — 92.7% 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.
Grade A 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 Grade A BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Grade A BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Grade A BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8344 | 163.4060 | 165.12 | top 68% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 178.2972 | 176.0000 | 177.15 | top 4% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3484 | 155.3828 | 157.37 | top 88% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2628 | 161.6684 | 163.97 | top 65% |
“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 | 131 | 0 | top 65% | 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 | 50% | top 65% | 92.7% | 92.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-15 | 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 237 / 467 (659.8856) | 227 (166.8344) | 27 (176.0000) | 385 (155.3828) | 284 (161.6684) |
| 2018-09-14 | 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL) unrated Kansas City, KS | 131 / 164 (667.3144) | 143 (163.4060) | 5 (178.2972) | 154 (159.3484) | 113 (166.2628) |