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94.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 677.5424 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest — 94.1% 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.
HTX Barbecue 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 126 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-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before HTX Barbecue's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2017, 8 years before HTX Barbecue's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with HTX Barbecue on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where HTX Barbecue's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 162.2400 | 167.68 | top 65% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 166.2400 | 169.68 | top 55% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5140 | 165.1200 | 166.82 | top 74% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6684 | 167.3828 | 168.53 | top 56% |
“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 | 0% | top 69% | 94.1% | 93.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 116 / 158 (677.5424) | 76 (173.1200) | 133 (166.2400) | 120 (168.5140) | 92 (169.6684) |
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 259 / 401 (667.8628) | 332 (162.2400) | 104 (173.1200) | 287 (165.1200) | 214 (167.3828) |