Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 664.4340 at 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open — 92.3% of a perfect 720.
B & C SMOKERS ahead in 100% of their meetings
B & C SMOKERS has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Ahead in 100% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of Holy Smokes in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
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.
Half Sauced BBQ has 4 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 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 Half Sauced BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1558 at their best, 49 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Half Sauced BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8112 | 156.5144 | 162.25 | top 55% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 160.5256 | 163.99 | top 45% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 157.1428 | 162.83 | top 51% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 160.5144 | 164.53 | top 38% |
“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.
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +12.6 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open | 2013-10-03 |
| +0.7 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) | 2016-10-29 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -3.3 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open | 2014-10-02 |
| -2 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open | 2015-10-03 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 56% | 90.4% | 90.4% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 44% | 91.2% | 91.2% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 64% | 89.3% | 89.3% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 14% | 92.3% | 92.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 312 / 557 (650.6856) | 438 (156.5144) | 364 (160.5256) | 408 (159.3828) | 41 (174.2628) |
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 265 / 606 (656.5032) | 297 (164.0000) | 278 (164.5944) | 204 (167.3944) | 337 (160.5144) |
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 356 / 552 (642.7196) | 360 (161.6572) | 304 (162.8456) | 419 (157.1428) | 307 (161.0740) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 74 / 535 (664.4340) | 149 (166.8112) | 81 (167.9772) | 124 (167.3828) | 188 (162.2628) |