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: 670.7312 at 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open — 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.
Vincent Smokin Kettles 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 110 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 Vincent Smokin Kettles has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head17 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Vincent Smokin Kettles's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1565 at their best, 60 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after Vincent Smokin Kettles did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Vincent Smokin Kettles on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Vincent Smokin Kettles's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 170.2628 | 170.26 | top 21% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9428 | 159.9428 | 159.94 | top 67% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1084 | 169.1084 | 169.11 | top 24% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 171.4172 | 171.42 | top 16% |
“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.
| 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 23% | 93.2% | 93.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 142 / 606 (670.7312) | 129 (170.2628) | 404 (159.9428) | 148 (169.1084) | 95 (171.4172) |