Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
94.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 680.0116 at 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open — 94.4% 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.
Sprint 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 95 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Sprint's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after Sprint did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Sprint 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 Sprint's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Sprint's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Sprint's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.0116 | 176.0116 | 176.01 | top 5% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2856 | 166.2856 | 166.29 | top 39% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 175.4400 | 175.4400 | 175.44 | top 4% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2744 | 162.2744 | 162.27 | top 49% |
“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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 11% | 94.4% | 94.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 60 / 552 (680.0116) | 28 (176.0116) | 215 (166.2856) | 24 (175.4400) | 270 (162.2744) |