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.
SHKETCHY'S BBQ 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 152 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 SHKETCHY'S BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where SHKETCHY'S BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SHKETCHY'S BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2014, 5 years before SHKETCHY'S BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where SHKETCHY'S BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where SHKETCHY'S BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 139.9200 | 139.9200 | 139.92 | top 97% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9544 | 151.9544 | 151.95 | top 95% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5600 | 156.5600 | 156.56 | top 88% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2628 | 158.2628 | 158.26 | top 71% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 84.3% | 84.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-12 | Smoke In the Springs 🏅 Osage City, KS | 100 / 104 (606.6972) | 101 (139.9200) | 99 (151.9544) | 92 (156.5600) | 74 (158.2628) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #1955 (60 pts) | #2049 (60 pts) | #2026 (60 pts) | #2029 (60 pts) | #2010 (60 pts) |