Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.7% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 674.8344 at 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open — 93.7% 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.
Pitts and Spitts #2 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 124 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 Pitts and Spitts #2 has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1609 at their best, 97 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after Pitts and Spitts #2 did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Pitts and Spitts #2 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 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.5944 | 168.0116 | 172.30 | top 21% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5372 | 155.4172 | 161.98 | top 62% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3828 | 165.7028 | 166.54 | top 49% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2856 | 172.5828 | 173.43 | top 14% |
“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 29% | 93.7% | 93.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 90 / 552 (674.8344) | 192 (168.0116) | 170 (168.5372) | 229 (165.7028) | 53 (172.5828) |
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 69 / 165 (673.6800) | 11 (176.5944) | 153 (155.4172) | 93 (167.3828) | 31 (174.2856) |