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.
PAPA LEO'S BARBECUE 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 150 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 PAPA LEO'S BARBECUE has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1565 at their best, 85 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 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with PAPA LEO'S BARBECUE 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 | 159.9428 | 154.8456 | 157.39 | top 71% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4400 | 167.4400 | 167.44 | top 43% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1428 | 146.2172 | 153.68 | top 69% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 176.6172 | 152.5260 | 164.57 | top 43% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Route 66 Smoke Out | 2 | 30 | 0 | top 88% | 2016-05-06 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 75% | 87% | 87% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 100% | 68.4% | 68.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-05-06 | Route 66 Smoke Out Dwight, IL | 30 / 40 (626.1260) | 24 (159.9428) | 17 (167.4400) | 36 (146.2172) | 30 (152.5260) |
| 2015-05-01 | Route 66 Smoke Out (TEAMS AND JUDGES FULL) Dwight, IL | 40 / 40 (492.6056) | 33 (154.8456) | — | 19 (161.1428) | 4 (176.6172) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 ↗ | Master | #2274 (60 pts) | #2318 (65 pts) | #2138 (100 pts) | #2326 (60 pts) | #2345 (60 pts) |
| 2015 ↗ | Master | #2158 (60 pts) | #2209 (60 pts) | — | #2061 (90 pts) | #1327 (210 pts) |