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93.6% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 674.1944 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 93.6% 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.
TEXAS MADE SMOKERS 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 125 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 TEXAS MADE SMOKERS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before TEXAS MADE SMOKERS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2014, 9 years before TEXAS MADE SMOKERS's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 6 years before TEXAS MADE SMOKERS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 6 years before TEXAS MADE SMOKERS'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 | 161.6800 | 152.5256 | 157.10 | top 88% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4288 | 163.4172 | 167.42 | top 46% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.9772 | 141.6572 | 156.82 | top 61% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1084 | 154.2172 | 161.66 | top 61% |
“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 71% | 93.6% | 89.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 233 / 487 (674.1944) | 382 (161.6800) | 162 (171.4288) | 134 (171.9772) | 188 (169.1084) |
| 2023-08-25 | Montana Pitmaster Classic 🏅 Bozeman, MT | 41 / 44 (611.8172) | 43 (152.5256) | 26 (163.4172) | 42 (141.6572) | 37 (154.2172) |