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95.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 684.5372 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 95.1% 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.
ACES Wild KCMO 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 103 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 ACES Wild KCMO has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before ACES Wild KCMO's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2017, 8 years before ACES Wild KCMO's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with ACES Wild KCMO 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 ACES Wild KCMO'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 | 174.8456 | 169.1200 | 171.98 | top 44% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2972 | 173.1200 | 173.71 | top 31% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 177.7028 | 162.8000 | 170.25 | top 52% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6916 | 154.7540 | 156.22 | top 91% |
“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 | 1 | 0 | top 33% |
| MO | 1 | 0 | top 92% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 92% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 33% |
| 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 63% | 95.1% | 93.4% |
| 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 | 134 / 401 (684.5372) | 77 (174.8456) | 75 (174.2972) | 32 (177.7028) | 346 (157.6916) |
| 2025-10-24 | 1st Annual Boost & BBQ 🏅 Odessa, MO | 23 / 25 (659.7940) | 17 (169.1200) | 11 (173.1200) | 24 (162.8000) | 24 (154.7540) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ↗ | Master | #875 (120 pts) | #879 (150 pts) | #848 (180 pts) | #994 (115 pts) | #977 (115 pts) |
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #1255 (60 pts) | #1319 (60 pts) | #1432 (60 pts) | #1287 (60 pts) | #1296 (60 pts) |