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95.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 689.0856 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 95.7% 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.
Rum And Que 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 111 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.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Rum And Que's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Rum And Que on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2018, 7 years before Rum And Que's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Rum And Que's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Rum And Que'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 | 174.2628 | 173.7028 | 173.98 | top 33% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 175.4288 | 171.9656 | 173.70 | top 27% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 177.7144 | 159.3828 | 168.55 | top 52% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6684 | 165.1428 | 165.41 | top 71% |
“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 52% | 95.7% | 94.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 126 / 158 (674.1828) | 66 (173.7028) | 31 (175.4288) | 155 (159.3828) | 126 (165.6684) |
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 99 / 401 (689.0856) | 96 (174.2628) | 141 (171.9656) | 21 (177.7144) | 250 (165.1428) |