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.
Birdie'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 127 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 Birdie'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 Birdie's BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Birdie's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before Birdie's BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Birdie's BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Birdie'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 | 153.7144 | 153.7144 | 153.71 | top 98% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7256 | 157.7256 | 157.73 | top 88% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 173.1772 | 173.1772 | 173.18 | top 7% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 169.1200 | 169.12 | top 24% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 71% | 90.8% | 90.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-04 | Mclouth BBQ Blowout 29th Annual 🏅 Mclouth, KS | 30 / 42 (653.7372) | 41 (153.7144) | 37 (157.7256) | 3 (173.1772) | 10 (169.1200) |