Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
94.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 680.4916 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 94.5% 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.
The Smokestack BBQ Supply has 2 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 92 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 The Smokestack BBQ Supply has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 8 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with The Smokestack BBQ Supply on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2019, 5 years before The Smokestack BBQ Supply's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 4.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before The Smokestack BBQ Supply'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 | 170.2628 | 166.2628 | 168.26 | top 57% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.0000 | 169.1316 | 172.57 | top 31% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 177.7028 | 159.3712 | 168.54 | top 47% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.0000 | 163.3944 | 169.70 | top 40% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2 | 174 | 0 | top 45% | 2025-11-05 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 51% | 94.1% | 94.1% |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 39% | 94.5% | 94.5% |
| 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 - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 203 / 401 (677.6340) | 279 (166.2628) | 39 (176.0000) | 355 (159.3712) | 47 (176.0000) |
| 2024-10-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2024-10-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 174 / 444 (680.4916) | 201 (170.2628) | 230 (169.1316) | 21 (177.7028) | 299 (163.3944) |