Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 669.0400 at 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational — 92.9% of a perfect 720.
THE BLUE BLOODS ahead in 100% of their meetings
THE BLUE BLOODS has come out ahead in 3 of their 3 shared contests.
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.
Twin Pigs BBQ 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 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 3.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Twin Pigs BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 157.1428 | 164.74 | top 48% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8572 | 165.1544 | 166.10 | top 35% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9656 | 157.1084 | 162.45 | top 52% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5714 | 163.4628 | 166.48 | top 32% |
“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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 37% | 92.9% | 91.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 132 / 535 (655.4284) | 79 (169.7028) | 144 (165.1544) | 341 (157.1084) | 162 (163.4628) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 58 / 174 (669.0400) | 78 (167.3828) | 70 (166.2744) | 65 (167.9656) | 67 (167.4172) |
| 2013-03-08 | BBQ Championship & Hog Wild Festival Mobile, AL | 29 / 56 (654.8570) | 47 (157.1428) | 22 (166.8572) | 31 (162.2856) | 16 (168.5714) |