Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 669.6568 at 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open — 93.0% 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.
Vincent's Smoking Kettle 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 81 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 Vincent's Smoking Kettle has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Vincent's Smoking Kettle did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Vincent's Smoking Kettle on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Vincent's Smoking Kettle's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 158.8344 | 164.55 | top 42% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8572 | 158.2744 | 162.57 | top 46% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4284 | 167.9656 | 169.70 | top 18% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8800 | 161.1084 | 161.99 | top 44% |
“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 24% | 93% | 93% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 36% | 90% | 90% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 135 / 552 (669.6568) | 135 (170.2628) | 203 (166.8572) | 92 (171.4284) | 302 (161.1084) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 194 / 535 (647.9544) | 319 (158.8344) | 294 (158.2744) | 105 (167.9656) | 174 (162.8800) |