Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.2% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 663.9540 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 92.2% of a perfect 720.
Off the trail for 6.5 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.
Pig Tales - TX 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 157 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 Pig Tales - TX has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1522 at their best, 33 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2017.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Pig Tales - TX on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 4 years before Pig Tales - TX'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 | 164.5828 | 158.2400 | 161.41 | top 75% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1428 | 156.5484 | 156.85 | top 81% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 137.1316 | 153.98 | top 67% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4056 | 150.2172 | 160.81 | top 57% |
“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 62% | 92.2% | 92.2% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 83.6% | 83.6% |
| 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 | 302 / 487 (663.9540) | 334 (164.5828) | 420 (157.1428) | 175 (170.8228) | 129 (171.4056) |
| 2017-04-07 | Smoke in the Spring (WFC Quilfyer) Osage City, KS | 92 / 100 (602.1372) | 82 (158.2400) | 76 (156.5484) | 98 (137.1316) | 87 (150.2172) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 ↗ | Master | #1255 (60 pts) | #1319 (60 pts) | #1432 (60 pts) | #1287 (60 pts) | #1296 (60 pts) |
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #2212 (60 pts) | #2286 (60 pts) | #2304 (60 pts) | #2260 (60 pts) | #2266 (60 pts) |