Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
94.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 678.2172 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 94.2% of a perfect 720.
RAZORRACKS ahead in 100% of their meetings
RAZORRACKS has come out ahead in 5 of their 5 shared contests.
Chicken is where the weekend gets away from them — it averages 4.02 points below their pork ribs, and turns into a call 0% of the time against 0%.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of I'd Smoke That in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Off the trail for 7.7 years, then back at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides (2024-10-30).
Their overall lands within ±2.02% of a perfect score of their own average — whatever the field, you know roughly what they'll turn in.
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.
Bayou BBQ has 4 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 124 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Bayou BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than Bayou BBQ has cooked, 5 to 8, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Bayou BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Bayou BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 8 years before Bayou BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2016, 9 years before Bayou BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RAZORRACKS | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% | ⚔ compare |
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 156.5260 | 162.83 | top 79% |
| Pork Ribs | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8344 | 162.8916 | 166.85 | top 59% |
| Pork | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7144 | 154.7884 | 166.26 | top 57% |
| Brisket | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 156.5484 | 162.93 | top 67% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KS | 4 | 0 | top 74% |
| LA | 2 | 0 | top 78% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 78% |
| Large (40+) | 4 | 0 | top 74% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest | 2 | 147 | 0 | top 92% | 2025-11-05 |
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2 | 200 | 0 | top 56% | 2025-11-05 |
| Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | 2 | 23 | 0 | top 78% | 2017-03-03 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +5.5 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2024-10-30 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -5.1 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | 2016-03-04 |
| -4.9 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | 2017-03-03 |
| -1.6 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2025-11-05 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 80% | 92.5% | 92.1% |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 68% | 94.2% | 93.5% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 79% | 89.7% | 89.7% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 77% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 147 / 158 (659.8632) | 156 (156.5260) | 94 (170.8344) | 89 (170.8228) | 147 (161.6800) |
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 265 / 401 (666.1256) | 319 (163.3828) | 176 (170.2744) | 258 (167.3712) | 259 (165.0972) |
| 2024-10-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 153 / 169 (668.5144) | 119 (169.1200) | 156 (163.4172) | 61 (172.0000) | 144 (163.9772) |
| 2024-10-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 200 / 444 (678.2172) | 288 (166.2284) | 305 (165.1544) | 89 (173.7144) | 70 (173.1200) |
| 2024-10-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-03-03 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Shreveport, LA | 23 / 29 (645.6916) | 25 (161.1544) | 12 (168.5372) | 24 (158.8572) | 21 (157.1428) |
| 2016-03-04 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Shreveport, LA | 23 / 30 (634.7884) | 22 (160.5600) | 15 (162.8916) | 24 (154.7884) | 21 (156.5484) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #2195 (64 pts) | #2889 (54 pts) | #1945 (119 pts) | #2794 (59 pts) | #2182 (74 pts) |
| 2016 ↗ | Master | #2240 (65 pts) | #2283 (70 pts) | #2109 (105 pts) | #2326 (60 pts) | #2252 (75 pts) |