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Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
95.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 686.2172 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest — 95.3% of a perfect 720.
Off the trail for 2 years, then back at Lakeland Pig Festival (2024-01-26).
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.
Baileys 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Baileys BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head15 contests to 4: their number has had years to settle where Baileys BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Baileys BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before Baileys BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Baileys 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, 11 years before Baileys BBQ'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 178.8572 | 174.2628 | 176.56 | top 16% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8456 | 165.0972 | 165.97 | top 76% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5372 | 164.5600 | 166.55 | top 72% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 177.7028 | 171.4172 | 174.56 | top 19% |
“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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 47% | 95.3% | 95% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 81 / 158 (686.2172) | 8 (178.8572) | 141 (165.0972) | 139 (164.5600) | 15 (177.7028) |
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 172 / 401 (681.0628) | 105 (174.2628) | 253 (166.8456) | 224 (168.5372) | 118 (171.4172) |
| 2024-01-26 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2022-01-28 | Lakeland Pig Festival 🏅 Lakeland, FL | — | — | — | — | — |