Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
92.1% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 663.3600 at American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest — 92.1% of a perfect 720.
Off the trail for 2 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.
FLOAT'N & SMOK'N 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 110 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 FLOAT'N & SMOK'N has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head19 contests to 3: their number has had years to settle where FLOAT'N & SMOK'N's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with FLOAT'N & SMOK'N on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before FLOAT'N & SMOK'N's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before FLOAT'N & SMOK'N'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 | 169.1200 | 149.6572 | 159.39 | top 69% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2856 | 153.1316 | 161.71 | top 65% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8344 | 159.9428 | 165.39 | top 53% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.1200 | 145.6916 | 149.41 | top 91% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2 | 158 | 0 | top 48% | 2023-09-27 |
| 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 63% | 92.1% | 92.1% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 34% | — | — |
| 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 | 306 / 487 (663.3600) | 226 (169.1200) | 205 (170.2856) | 167 (170.8344) | 435 (153.1200) |
| 2021-09-16 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue-OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 158 / 467 (167.4056) | 432 (149.6572) | 408 (153.1316) | 331 (159.9428) | 431 (145.6916) |