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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.
7K BBQ Co 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 126 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 7K BBQ Co's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where 7K BBQ Co's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 13 years before 7K BBQ Co's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with 7K BBQ Co 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 7K BBQ Co'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 7K BBQ Co'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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3828 | 167.3828 | 167.38 | top 56% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9544 | 159.9544 | 159.95 | top 70% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2284 | 166.2284 | 166.23 | top 56% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.1944 | 146.1944 | 146.19 | top 96% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 78% | 88.9% | 88.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-24 | Wild West BBQ Cook-Off 🏅 Lamar, CO | 21 / 27 (639.7600) | 15 (167.3828) | 19 (159.9544) | 15 (166.2284) | 26 (146.1944) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 ↗ | Master | #897 (72 pts) | #915 (102 pts) | #997 (82 pts) | #864 (102 pts) | #1203 (52 pts) |