High-water mark
689.0400
career-best overall
95.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 689.0400 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 95.7% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- Nov 5, 2025
Can't Get Right Cookers
Can't Get Right Cookers is a competition barbecue team with 5 Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) contests on record between 2023 and 2025. Their best overall finish is 29th of 67 at the Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff (2024). Also listed in KCBS results as “Cant Get Right Cookers”.
At a glance (the record in numbers)
Rating
1509
Unranked — needs 5 rated contests, has 41 invitational or side-series contest not counted
Contests
5
in the data
First seen
Sep 8, 2023
latest Nov 5, 2025 · 2.2 years on the trail
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
0
0 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
0% of 5 contests
Avg finish
top 59%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
0%
contests with a top-10 call
Consistency
±24.28
spread of their Master overall scores (lower = steadier)
Strongest meat
Pork Ribs
avg 167.76 · weakest Chicken (162.60)
Road miles
631
across 5 mapped stops · furthest 631 mi
Schedule strength
31%
of rated fields were softer than their average draw (1542)
Purse competed for
$234K
listed at 5 contests — purses, not winnings
State championships
0 🏅
won from 4 state-championship entries
Master avg
660.70 / 720
5 Master contests · 0 GCs
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The teams rated closest to Can't Get Right Cookers, each with one reason worth a look.
Can't Get Right Cookers has 4 rated contests, short of the five a power ranking needs, so its rating is still close to the 1500 every team starts on and 99 rated teams sit within a point of it.
#2,859 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
Their last contest in the data was back in 2020, 5 years before Can't Get Right Cookers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,871 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1509
Careers of much the same size, 5 contests to 5, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Compare careers#2,858 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1519
They were already cooking in 2013, 10 years before Can't Get Right Cookers's first contest.
⚔ Compare careers#2,864 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1510
Level with Can't Get Right Cookers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Compare careers#2,863 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1515
Their last contest in the data was back in 2016, 9 years before Can't Get Right Cookers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careers#2,867 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1509
Their last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Can't Get Right Cookers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Compare careersFamiliar foes (most-met opponents in overall standings — one meeting per contest)
| Opponent | Meetings | Ahead | Behind | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LA PASADITA | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| BULLHORN BBQ | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% | ⚔ compare |
| CHICKEN FRIED BBQ | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
| Meatshots BBQ | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% | ⚔ compare |
By meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168 | 156.5600 | 162.60 | top 72% |
| Pork Ribs | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2972 | 153.6684 | 167.76 | top 48% |
| Pork | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 175.4172 | 147.4056 | 164.09 | top 64% |
| Brisket | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 160.5144 | 166.25 | top 48% |
“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 field size and state
Repeat visits (contests they've cooked twice or more)
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff | 3 | 29 | 0 | top 57% | Sep 12, 2025 |
More numbers
Busiest season
2025
3 contests
Contests a season
1.7
across 3 seasons in the data
Most contests held in
TX
3 of 5 contests · 2 states in all
Contests visited
3
1 of them more than once
Opponents faced
552
finished ahead 408 times, behind 404
Longest layoff
1 yrs
Sep 8, 2023 → Sep 13, 2024
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
20254 milestones
- Career-best overall score689.0400 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
- Career-best single call (Pork)175.4172 American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
- Peak power rating (1509) American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
- Most recent contest American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest
20241 milestone
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score674.2400 Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
20231 milestone
- First tracked contest Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff
Power rating over time (1500 = average; recomputed nightly)
📈 Biggest rating jumps
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +11.2 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | Nov 5, 2025 |
| +5.8 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff | Sep 12, 2025 |
| +4.1 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff | Sep 13, 2024 |
📉 Toughest weekends
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.9 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff | Sep 8, 2023 |
Scores over time (% of a perfect score — tap a meat to add it)
Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)
Where they finish (overall)
Best vs average (by meat)
How entries end (by meat)
Season by season
| 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 53% | 95.7% | 93.1% |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 43% | 93.6% | 93.6% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 90% | 85.9% | 85.9% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 2025 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 104 / 401 (689.0400) | 298 (165.0972) | 87 (174.2628) | 69 (175.4172) | 76 (174.2628) |
| Nov 5, 2025 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 152 / 158 (652.3424) | 155 (158.1940) | 135 (165.6800) | 133 (165.6684) | 140 (162.8000) |
| Sep 12, 2025 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 35 / 92 (669.7144) | 39 (168) | 12 (174.2972) | 74 (161.1544) | 34 (166.2628) |
| Sep 13, 2024 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 29 / 67 (674.2400) | 44 (165.1428) | 23 (170.8684) | 26 (170.8228) | 23 (167.4060) |
| Sep 8, 2023 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 89 / 99 (618.1484) | 81 (156.5600) | 87 (153.6684) | 96 (147.4056) | 62 (160.5144) |
An unrated contest — an invitational, or a Competitor or Kosher Series board — is in the record but doesn’t move the power rating.