Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 9,996 miles across 3 mapped stops — the longest single trip being 9,424 miles to World Barbecue Championship.
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.
Japan BBQ SHOGUN has 3 rated contests — 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 137 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 Japan BBQ SHOGUN has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 16 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Japan BBQ SHOGUN on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2016.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5144 | 137.0628 | 143.75 | top 97% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3944 | 138.7428 | 146.79 | top 88% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 157.0856 | 160.36 | top 57% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8116 | 115.3372 | 141.28 | top 89% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL | 1 | 0 | top 97% |
| KS | 1 | 0 | top 97% |
| AU | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 97% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -15.9 | The Yaks Melbourne BBQ Festival | 2016-02-05 |
| -11.3 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) | 2016-10-29 |
| -8.5 | World Barbecue Championship | 2017-11-08 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 87.4% | 87.4% |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 81.5% | 79.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-11-08 | World Barbecue Championship Orange Beach, AL | 90 / 93 (629.5432) | 93 (152.5144) | 88 (155.3944) | 51 (166.8228) | 85 (154.8116) |
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 538 / 557 (586.6512) | 543 (137.0628) | 542 (138.7428) | 437 (157.1656) | 422 (153.6800) |
| 2016-02-05 | The Yaks Melbourne BBQ Festival Melbourne, AU | 34 / 34 (560.3428) | 32 (141.6800) | 25 (146.2400) | 13 (157.0856) | 34 (115.3372) |