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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.
Flatlands 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 128 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.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before Flatlands BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 12 years before Flatlands BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Flatlands BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2016, 10 years before Flatlands BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2016, 10 years before Flatlands BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5828 | 156.5368 | 164.56 | top 57% |
| Pork Ribs | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.0000 | 164.5256 | 166.83 | top 50% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6800 | 161.6684 | 163.67 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2856 | 149.6456 | 155.97 | top 78% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ND BBQ Championship | 2 | 37 | 0 | top 72% | 2026-05-01 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 63% | 92% | 92% |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 80% | 89.4% | 89.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | ND BBQ Championship 🏅 Fargo, ND | 45 / 71 (662.2168) | 16 (172.5828) | 48 (165.6800) | 58 (161.6684) | 46 (162.2856) |
| 2026-05-01 | ND BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS) Fargo, ND | — | — | 21 (164.5256) | — | — |
| 2025-10-03 | ND BBQ Championship 🏅 Fargo, ND | 37 / 46 (643.8624) | 42 (156.5368) | 8 (172.0000) | 30 (165.6800) | 42 (149.6456) |
| 2025-10-03 | ND BBQ Championship (ONE MEAT RIBS) Fargo, ND | — | — | 14 (165.1312) | — | — |