Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
93.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 673.0628 at 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational — 93.5% 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.
Rubbin' My Meat 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 119 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 Rubbin' My Meat 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've been 1629 at their best, 118 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after Rubbin' My Meat did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Rubbin' My Meat 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 | 168.5828 | 164.5828 | 166.58 | top 35% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2856 | 155.9544 | 163.12 | top 47% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 178.8572 | 165.6912 | 172.27 | top 15% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6684 | 161.6684 | 165.67 | 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 19% | 93.5% | 92.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 85 / 535 (662.2280) | 193 (164.5828) | 51 (170.2856) | 158 (165.6912) | 209 (161.6684) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 37 / 174 (673.0628) | 60 (168.5828) | 148 (155.9544) | 2 (178.8572) | 50 (169.6684) |