Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 668.5028 at 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open — 92.8% 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.
VML Q Crew 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 100 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 VML Q Crew's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with VML Q Crew on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where VML Q Crew's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where VML Q Crew's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 8 contests, alongside a 50% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1200 | 165.1200 | 165.12 | top 49% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.0116 | 168.0116 | 168.01 | top 32% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5256 | 168.5256 | 168.53 | top 30% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8456 | 166.8456 | 166.85 | top 31% |
“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 27% | 92.8% | 92.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 147 / 552 (668.5028) | 270 (165.1200) | 174 (168.0116) | 166 (168.5256) | 170 (166.8456) |