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95.8% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 689.6112 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 95.8% of a perfect 720.
Off the trail for 4 years, then back at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest (2023-09-27).
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.
MISSOURI PITFIRE BBQ 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 108 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 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with MISSOURI PITFIRE BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 9 years before MISSOURI PITFIRE BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 6 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 159.4056 | 165.11 | top 57% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.5600 | 172.5600 | 174.56 | top 11% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4056 | 161.1088 | 166.26 | top 51% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 160.5484 | 165.69 | top 44% |
“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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 15% | 95.8% | 95.8% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 58% | 90.8% | 90.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Sides Kansas City, KS | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 72 / 487 (689.6112) | 183 (170.8228) | 33 (176.5600) | 160 (171.4056) | 141 (170.8228) |
| 2019-09-12 | 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 272 / 468 (653.6228) | 356 (159.4056) | 69 (172.5600) | 321 (161.1088) | 281 (160.5484) |