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94.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 681.0512 at 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL) — 94.6% 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.
Butler's Backdrift 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 113 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.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Butler's Backdrift 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 2014, 3 years before Butler's Backdrift BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 3 years before Butler's Backdrift BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Butler's Backdrift BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Butler's Backdrift BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 165.1316 | 167.13 | top 61% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 166.2628 | 169.41 | top 48% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 177.1428 | 167.9772 | 172.56 | top 24% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5256 | 161.0856 | 164.81 | top 61% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) | 2 | 70 | 0 | top 49% | 2017-09-01 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 49% | 94.6% | 93.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-01 | 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 174 / 407 (666.7544) | 228 (165.1316) | 71 (172.5600) | 158 (167.9772) | 257 (161.0856) |
| 2017-08-31 | 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL) unrated Kansas City, KS | 70 / 129 (681.0512) | 85 (169.1200) | 102 (166.2628) | 13 (177.1428) | 75 (168.5256) |