Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.0% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 662.7544 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 92.0% 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.
Hammer Monkey Cartel 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 122 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 Hammer Monkey Cartel 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 were already cooking in 2015, 9 years before Hammer Monkey Cartel'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 2018, 6 years before Hammer Monkey Cartel's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Hammer Monkey Cartel on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1084 | 165.1084 | 165.11 | top 68% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5716 | 172.5716 | 172.57 | top 29% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2400 | 158.2400 | 158.24 | top 85% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8344 | 166.8344 | 166.83 | top 51% |
“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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 67% | 92% | 92% |
| 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 - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 297 / 444 (662.7544) | 304 (165.1084) | 129 (172.5716) | 379 (158.2400) | 228 (166.8344) |