Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 67 times in 100
Their Grand Championship at Porkapalooza BBQ Festival (2014-06-14) came as the ratings underdog — roughly a 33-in-100 shot against the field's top-rated team, HOUSE OF Q.
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.
Prairie Smoke & Spice 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 86 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Prairie Smoke & Spice's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head3 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Prairie Smoke & Spice 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 Prairie Smoke & Spice's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Prairie Smoke & Spice's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Prairie Smoke & Spice's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.3600 | 151.3600 | 151.36 | top 83% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 163.4400 | 163.4400 | 163.44 | top 7% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 173.7028 | 173.7028 | 173.70 | top 3% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.8456 | 166.8456 | 166.85 | top 14% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 3% | 91% | 91% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-14 | Porkapalooza BBQ Festival Edmonton Alberta Canada, T6J 0S4 | 1 / 29 (655.3484) | 24 (151.3600) | 2 (163.4400) | 1 (173.7028) | 4 (166.8456) |