Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
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Perfect scores on the board
1perfect 180s
1 perfect 180 in the data — every judge at the table handing back a nine, all in pork.
Pork ×1
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High-water mark
667.3604career-best overall
92.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 667.3604 at Boats, Bands, & BBQ — 92.7% of a perfect 720.
Master
2016-06-10
Teams like this (closest power rating)
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.
Rejino Barbecue 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 119 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.
“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.
The story so far (12 numbers that describe this team)