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97.5% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 701.7256 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 97.5% 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.
CHINGON BBQ / TEXAS ORIGINAL CHARCOAL 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 81 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 CHINGON BBQ / TEXAS ORIGINAL CHARCOAL has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 10 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where CHINGON BBQ / TEXAS ORIGINAL CHARCOAL's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with CHINGON BBQ / TEXAS ORIGINAL CHARCOAL on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where CHINGON BBQ / TEXAS ORIGINAL CHARCOAL's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.0000 | 176.0000 | 176.00 | top 12% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.0000 | 176.0000 | 176.00 | top 8% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.0228 | 176.0228 | 176.02 | top 9% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.7028 | 173.7028 | 173.70 | top 13% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | top 1% | 97.5% | 97.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 6 / 487 (701.7256) | 59 (176.0000) | 39 (176.0000) | 44 (176.0228) | 63 (173.7028) |