Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 671.9200 at 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational — 93.3% 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.
Bringing the Heat 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 99 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.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Bringing the Heat did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Bringing the Heat 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-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ 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 | 173.1200 | 155.3940 | 164.26 | top 52% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7256 | 162.8572 | 168.29 | top 39% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3828 | 159.3944 | 161.39 | top 72% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 164.5484 | 168.55 | top 34% |
“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 48% | 93.3% | 92% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 287 / 552 (653.0624) | 450 (155.3940) | 47 (173.7256) | 385 (159.3944) | 220 (164.5484) |
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 74 / 165 (671.9200) | 36 (173.1200) | 115 (162.8572) | 123 (163.3828) | 45 (172.5600) |