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: 671.3600 at 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open — 93.2% of a perfect 720.
SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
SHAKE 'N BAKE BBQ has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 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.
SMOKIN CRUE 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 127 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.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SMOKIN CRUE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 160.0000 | 165.90 | top 49% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9772 | 156.0116 | 159.03 | top 70% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 177.1428 | 149.6800 | 159.97 | top 61% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.0856 | 153.6456 | 158.04 | 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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 85% |
| Large (40+) | 2 | 0 | top 49% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +5.8 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open | 2015-10-03 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -7.5 | 1st Annual BBQ BIVOUAC | 2013-11-08 |
| -5.9 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open | 2014-10-02 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 22% | 93.2% | 93.2% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 87.6% | 87.6% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 87% | 87% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 134 / 606 (671.3600) | 69 (173.1200) | 457 (156.0116) | 18 (177.1428) | 239 (165.0856) |
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 417 / 552 (630.6968) | 383 (160.0000) | 275 (163.9772) | 471 (153.0740) | 417 (153.6456) |
| 2013-11-08 | 1st Annual BBQ BIVOUAC St. James, MO | 28 / 33 (626.7428) | 22 (164.5828) | 28 (157.0972) | 31 (149.6800) | 26 (155.3828) |