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.
Fat Guys BBQ 4.0 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 139 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 Fat Guys BBQ 4.0 has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Fat Guys BBQ 4.0's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Fat Guys BBQ 4.0 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-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 | 157.1088 | 149.0972 | 153.10 | top 91% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1544 | 150.1944 | 157.67 | top 81% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9200 | 138.8344 | 145.38 | top 98% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2516 | 156.5260 | 159.39 | 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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 97% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 92% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 85.5% | 85.5% |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 85.5% | 85.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-18 | Qlathe BBQ Championship 🏅 Olathe, KS | 65 / 71 (615.7492) | 61 (157.1088) | 66 (150.1944) | 68 (151.9200) | 54 (156.5260) |
| 2021-10-22 | Border War Barbeque 🏅 Osawatomie, KS | 29 / 30 (615.3376) | 29 (149.0972) | 21 (165.1544) | 30 (138.8344) | 24 (162.2516) |