Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 670.7884 at 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(INVITATIONAL) — 93.2% 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.
Rick's Rocking BBQ 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 123 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 Rick's Rocking BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1528 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Rick's Rocking BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2016.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6916 | 157.6456 | 159.67 | top 79% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.8572 | 159.9772 | 167.42 | top 41% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 161.6456 | 167.10 | top 45% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7256 | 159.4060 | 162.57 | top 65% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) | 2 | 117 | 0 | top 65% | 2016-10-29 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 65% | 93.2% | 91.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 367 / 557 (642.7204) | 346 (161.6916) | 367 (159.9772) | 364 (161.6456) | 333 (159.4060) |
| 2016-10-28 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(INVITATIONAL) unrated Kansas City, KS | 117 / 180 (670.7884) | 174 (157.6456) | 28 (174.8572) | 43 (172.5600) | 126 (165.7256) |