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: 670.8000 at 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open — 93.2% 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 FOUNTAIN CITY BARBEQUE 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.
Morgan Hunter Smoke & Hire 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 121 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 Morgan Hunter Smoke & Hire has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head12 contests to 4: their number has had years to settle where Morgan Hunter Smoke & Hire's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1531 at their best, 35 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head33 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 6% top-10 finishes rather than wins.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Morgan Hunter Smoke & Hire on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.8572 | 152.5144 | 162.98 | top 49% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8228 | 143.3484 | 152.09 | top 80% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.0000 | 147.9544 | 158.54 | top 64% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8112 | 152.5144 | 156.81 | top 63% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|
| +11.2 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open | 2014-10-02 |
| +5.6 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open | 2015-10-03 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -10.4 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) | 2016-10-29 |
| -9.8 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open | 2013-10-03 |
| 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 91% | 84.7% | 84.7% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 21% | 46.5% | 46.5% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 22% | 93.2% | 93.2% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 84% | 83.7% | 83.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 506 / 557 (609.5316) | 486 (152.5144) | 498 (149.6800) | 496 (152.5372) | 401 (154.8000) |
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 129 / 606 (334.8572) | 246 (165.7028) | 505 (152.5144) | 454 (157.6684) | 292 (162.8112) |
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 124 / 552 (670.8000) | 45 (174.8572) | 309 (162.8228) | 22 (176.0000) | 361 (157.1200) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 448 / 535 (602.6516) | 318 (158.8344) | 480 (143.3484) | 475 (147.9544) | 362 (152.5144) |