Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
96.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 690.9256 at 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open — 96.0% 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.
Bar-B-Que Commanders 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 96 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 Bar-B-Que Commanders has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Bar-B-Que Commanders's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after Bar-B-Que Commanders did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Bar-B-Que Commanders on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Bar-B-Que Commanders's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Bar-B-Que Commanders's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 178.3200 | 172.0116 | 175.17 | top 14% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 178.8572 | 177.7144 | 178.29 | top 1% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2856 | 168.5600 | 169.42 | top 33% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8228 | 164.6056 | 165.71 | top 46% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 9% | 96% | 95.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 19 / 552 (690.9256) | 10 (178.3200) | 6 (177.7144) | 120 (170.2856) | 212 (164.6056) |
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 24 / 165 (686.2516) | 43 (172.0116) | 1 (178.8572) | 72 (168.5600) | 89 (166.8228) |