Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
97.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 700.0460 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 97.2% 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.
Catalina Swine Mixer 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 84 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 Catalina Swine Mixer has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head19 contests to 3: their number has had years to settle where Catalina Swine Mixer's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Catalina Swine Mixer on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7144 | 173.7144 | 173.71 | top 28% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.0116 | 159.3600 | 167.69 | top 51% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4400 | 171.4400 | 171.44 | top 31% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 178.8800 | 178.8800 | 178.88 | top 2% |
“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 | 1 | 0 | 33% | top 2% | 97.2% | 97.2% |
| 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 | 10 / 444 (700.0460) | 124 (173.7144) | 42 (176.0116) | 139 (171.4400) | 9 (178.8800) |
| 2024-08-31 | Smoke on the River (ONE MEAT RIBS) Burlington, KS | — | — | 12 (159.3600) | — | — |