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.
SHUFFLEQ 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 SHUFFLEQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1530 at their best, 35 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head27 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where SHUFFLEQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head70 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 4% top-10 finishes rather than wins.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SHUFFLEQ 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1428 | 154.2284 | 155.69 | top 86% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4400 | 154.7884 | 161.11 | top 63% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5828 | 165.0972 | 166.84 | top 43% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5484 | 153.1656 | 158.86 | top 63% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 53% | 91.3% | 91.3% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 87.1% | 87.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-15 | 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 249 / 467 (657.7140) | 385 (157.1428) | 198 (167.4400) | 146 (168.5828) | 215 (164.5484) |
| 2017-09-01 | 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 336 / 407 (627.2796) | 363 (154.2284) | 338 (154.7884) | 220 (165.0972) | 328 (153.1656) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 ↗ | Master | #1954 (60 pts) | #2012 (60 pts) | #1996 (60 pts) | #2030 (60 pts) | #1990 (60 pts) |
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #2212 (60 pts) | #2286 (60 pts) | #2304 (60 pts) | #2260 (60 pts) | #2266 (60 pts) |