Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
95.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 686.8456 at 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open — 95.4% 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.
B.S. Cookers has 2 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 108 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-headThey turned up 9 years after B.S. Cookers did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with B.S. Cookers 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-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 | 174.2972 | 152.6172 | 166.87 | top 35% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 117.6456 | 151.02 | top 61% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 177.1428 | 146.2628 | 158.46 | top 63% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8572 | 125.0972 | 145.29 | top 71% |
“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 | 0 | 0% | top 50% | 95.4% | 91.9% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 75.2% | 75.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 33 / 552 (686.8456) | 66 (173.7028) | 246 (165.1428) | 12 (177.1428) | 86 (170.8572) |
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 156 / 165 (636.4456) | 24 (174.2972) | 62 (170.2628) | 157 (151.9656) | 163 (139.9200) |
| 2013-07-19 | Blues, BBQ & Bargains Hays, KS | 42 / 42 (541.6228) | 33 (152.6172) | 42 (117.6456) | 38 (146.2628) | 42 (125.0972) |