Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
96.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 693.1544 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 96.3% of a perfect 720.
AMERICAN FIRE BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
AMERICAN FIRE BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Hawg Wild in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
Off the trail for 2.1 years, then back at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest (2025-11-05).
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.
Reeves-Wiedeman Company has 3 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 117 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Reeves-Wiedeman Company has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 7 years before Reeves-Wiedeman Company's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2014, 7 years before Reeves-Wiedeman Company's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Reeves-Wiedeman Company 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 Reeves-Wiedeman Company'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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 175.4516 | 160.5484 | 167.24 | top 49% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 175.4400 | 158.8116 | 165.89 | top 52% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2744 | 163.3828 | 167.79 | top 47% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9884 | 146.8000 | 162.47 | top 50% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2 | 238 | 0 | top 69% | 2023-09-27 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +14.9 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2025-11-05 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -7.8 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2023-09-27 |
| -3.4 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue-OPEN CONTEST | 2021-09-16 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 15% | 96.3% | 96.3% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 86% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 51% | 92% | 92% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-05 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 62 / 401 (693.1544) | 55 (175.4516) | 43 (175.4400) | 190 (170.2744) | 103 (171.9884) |
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 419 / 487 (634.7088) | 305 (165.7144) | 406 (158.8116) | 339 (163.3828) | 461 (146.8000) |
| 2021-09-16 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue-OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 238 / 467 (662.2968) | 335 (160.5484) | 296 (163.4056) | 111 (169.7256) | 142 (168.6172) |