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94.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 680.4800 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest — 94.5% 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.
Smokey Cattle 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 128 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-headThey were already cooking in 2017, 7 years before Smokey Cattle's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before Smokey Cattle's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Smokey Cattle on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 6 years before Smokey Cattle's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 175.4400 | 169.6912 | 172.57 | top 41% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 175.4288 | 170.8344 | 173.13 | top 29% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5600 | 164.5372 | 164.55 | top 78% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 154.7772 | 162.80 | top 68% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 64% | 94.5% | 93.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2024-10-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Invitational Contest unrated Kansas City, KS | 106 / 169 (680.4800) | 109 (169.6912) | 31 (175.4288) | 151 (164.5372) | 87 (170.8228) |
| 2024-10-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 286 / 444 (665.6116) | 76 (175.4400) | 176 (170.8344) | 300 (164.5600) | 378 (154.7772) |