Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
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The long haul
5,060road miles between contests
Contest to contest, they've covered roughly 5,060 miles across 2 mapped stops.
2 mapped stops
Teams like this (closest power rating)
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.
BBQ CIE 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 146 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.
“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.
By contest size
Field
Contests
GCs
Avg finish
Small (<20 teams)
1
0
top 100%
Large (40+)
1
0
top 98%
The story so far (11 numbers that describe this team)