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93.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 673.0740 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.
Son Seekers BBQ Team 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 92 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.
7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Son Seekers BBQ Team's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 10 years after Son Seekers BBQ Team did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Son Seekers BBQ Team on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Son Seekers BBQ Team's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Son Seekers BBQ Team's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 173.1428 | 173.42 | top 9% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.4172 | 157.6572 | 158.54 | top 65% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 161.1200 | 167.41 | top 28% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2628 | 166.2512 | 166.26 | top 33% |
“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 | 0% | top 21% | 93.5% | 92.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 113 / 535 (658.1828) | 27 (173.1428) | 313 (157.6572) | 247 (161.1200) | 109 (166.2628) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 36 / 174 (673.0740) | 21 (173.7028) | 123 (159.4172) | 18 (173.7028) | 78 (166.2512) |