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.
Five Star BBQ 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 140 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 Five Star BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 11 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Five Star BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Five Star BBQ 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 | 156.5028 | 142.2856 | 149.39 | top 92% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.1428 | 150.2972 | 151.72 | top 88% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.3200 | 158.3200 | 158.32 | top 77% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 137.6344 | 137.6344 | 137.63 | 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 81.7% | 81.7% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 43% | 43% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-23 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 156 / 167 (588.5372) | 162 (142.2856) | 149 (150.2972) | 128 (158.3200) | 159 (137.6344) |
| 2015-08-14 | Atlanta BarB-Que Festival Atlanta, GA | 47 / 48 (309.6456) | 42 (156.5028) | 42 (153.1428) | — | — |