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92.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 668.4452 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 92.8% 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.
KC Que 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 121 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 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with KC Que on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 11 years before KC Que's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before KC Que's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before KC Que's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before KC Que'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 | 162.7884 | 158.7884 | 160.79 | top 82% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 168.5600 | 168.84 | top 43% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8572 | 162.8340 | 164.85 | top 62% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 159.3828 | 166.82 | top 42% |
“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 58% | 92.8% | 91.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-30 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 269 / 444 (668.4452) | 346 (162.7884) | 243 (168.5600) | 331 (162.8340) | 57 (174.2628) |
| 2024-09-27 | Shawnee Great Grillers 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 41 / 73 (654.1484) | 63 (158.7884) | 23 (169.1200) | 36 (166.8572) | 52 (159.3828) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #878 (120 pts) | #977 (120 pts) | #979 (130 pts) | #938 (120 pts) | #922 (120 pts) |