Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.3% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 664.5368 at The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship — 92.3% 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.
Water into Swine 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 113 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Water into Swine 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-headLevel with Water into Swine on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2015, 8 years before Water into Swine's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before Water into Swine's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before Water into Swine'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 | 172.0228 | 167.9656 | 169.99 | top 24% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 161.6800 | 165.97 | top 40% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 157.6912 | 161.97 | top 60% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1428 | 154.7656 | 163.95 | top 38% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship | 2 | 55 | 0 | top 34% | 2024-06-21 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 32% | 92.3% | 92.3% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 37% | 91.6% | 91.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-21 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 55 / 172 (664.5368) | 29 (172.0228) | 97 (161.6800) | 127 (157.6912) | 8 (173.1428) |
| 2023-06-23 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 61 / 167 (659.2340) | 51 (167.9656) | 40 (170.2628) | 77 (166.2400) | 120 (154.7656) |