Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 669.5888 at 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL) — 93.0% 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.
2 Old Farts and A Hog 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 128 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 2 Old Farts and A Hog has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1547 at their best, 53 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with 2 Old Farts and A Hog on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 5 years before 2 Old Farts and A Hog's first contest.
⚔ 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 | 170.8228 | 170.8112 | 170.82 | top 43% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8344 | 162.8460 | 166.84 | top 53% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9544 | 146.2056 | 155.08 | top 91% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9772 | 153.6688 | 158.82 | top 81% |
“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 | 125 | 0 | top 78% | 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 78% | 93% | 90.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-15 | 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 371 / 467 (633.5316) | 143 (170.8112) | 295 (162.8460) | 444 (146.2056) | 380 (153.6688) |
| 2018-09-14 | 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL) unrated Kansas City, KS | 125 / 164 (669.5888) | 92 (170.8228) | 69 (170.8344) | 142 (163.9544) | 133 (163.9772) |