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.
AROUND THE WAY GRILL 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team AROUND THE WAY GRILL has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 10 years after AROUND THE WAY GRILL did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with AROUND THE WAY GRILL 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 2.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5372 | 160.0116 | 162.27 | top 52% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3944 | 149.6568 | 154.53 | top 74% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.0744 | 149.0856 | 153.08 | top 84% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141.0400 | 140.4916 | 140.77 | top 95% |
“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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 84% | 85.7% | 84.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 470 / 552 (616.9720) | 380 (160.0116) | 365 (159.3944) | 424 (157.0744) | 528 (140.4916) |
| 2014-06-06 | Smokin on the Summit Lee's Summit, MO | 66 / 79 (604.3196) | 27 (164.5372) | 64 (149.6568) | 72 (149.0856) | 75 (141.0400) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 ↗ | Master | #1589 (150 pts) | #1666 (150 pts) | #1653 (150 pts) | #1668 (150 pts) | #1664 (150 pts) |