Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
94.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 678.7888 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 94.3% 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.
Twisted Oliver 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 111 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 Twisted Oliver BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 6 years before Twisted Oliver BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2014, 10 years before Twisted Oliver BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Twisted Oliver BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 4 years before Twisted Oliver BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5944 | 168.5484 | 170.57 | top 41% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 166.2400 | 166.24 | top 66% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.9656 | 163.9428 | 165.95 | top 63% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9888 | 171.9888 | 171.99 | top 21% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| MO | 1 | 0 | top 50% |
| KS | 1 | 0 | top 43% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 50% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 43% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 50% | — | — |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 43% | 94.3% | 94.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-03 | Carnivore Carnival (COMPETITOR SERIES) unrated Platte City, MO | 7 / 14 (667.3596) | 7 (168.5484) | — | 10 (163.9428) | — |
| 2024-10-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2024-10-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 193 / 444 (678.7888) | 144 (172.5944) | 293 (166.2400) | 241 (167.9656) | 93 (171.9888) |