Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
94.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 676.5028 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 94.0% of a perfect 720.
AMERICAN FIRE BBQ ahead in 100% of their meetings
AMERICAN FIRE BBQ has come out ahead in 4 of their 4 shared contests.
Ahead in 75% of their meetings
They've finished ahead of GRILLBILLYS in 3 of their 4 shared contests.
Off the trail for 2.1 years, then back at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest (2024-10-30).
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.
Chase-N-Moore Smoke 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 110 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 Chase-N-Moore Smoke has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 7 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2017, 5 years before Chase-N-Moore Smoke's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Chase-N-Moore Smoke on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 6, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3828 | 157.6456 | 160.95 | top 89% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 168.5256 | 172.83 | top 34% |
| Pork | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8344 | 161.0856 | 166.12 | top 65% |
| Brisket | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 160.5256 | 166.69 | top 53% |
“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 71% | 94% | 93.2% |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 74% | 92.4% | 91.9% |
| 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 | 159 / 169 (666.1140) | 161 (163.3828) | 131 (168.5256) | 159 (161.0856) | 58 (173.1200) |
| 2024-10-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 217 / 444 (676.5028) | 368 (161.0972) | 93 (174.2628) | 207 (169.1428) | 89 (172.0000) |
| 2022-10-01 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - SIDES Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2022-09-29 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - INVITATIONAL CONTEST unrated Kansas City, KS | 235 / 249 (658.1484) | 248 (157.6456) | 25 (176.5600) | 219 (163.4172) | 228 (160.5256) |
| 2022-09-29 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 266 / 505 (665.5656) | 388 (161.6572) | 132 (171.9656) | 158 (170.8344) | 333 (161.1084) |