Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 672.5716 at 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open — 93.4% 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.
Double Barrel Cookers I 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 113 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 Double Barrel Cookers I has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1629 at their best, 118 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 7 years after Double Barrel Cookers I did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Double Barrel Cookers I 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 | 163.4288 | 162.2400 | 162.83 | top 70% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.3200 | 157.1084 | 165.71 | top 48% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.8916 | 157.1200 | 166.01 | top 48% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1200 | 142.8000 | 151.96 | top 76% |
“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 59% | 93.4% | 89.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 108 / 552 (672.5716) | 348 (162.2400) | 34 (174.3200) | 32 (174.8916) | 300 (161.1200) |
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 162 / 165 (620.4572) | 127 (163.4288) | 149 (157.1084) | 150 (157.1200) | 162 (142.8000) |