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.
Cougars 2001 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 121 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 Cougars 2001 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 Cougars 2001's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2015, 6 years before Cougars 2001's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before Cougars 2001's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Cougars 2001 on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.6456 | 145.6456 | 145.65 | top 93% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5140 | 160.5140 | 160.51 | top 53% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.0740 | 157.0740 | 157.07 | top 75% |
| Brisket | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.0000 | 172.0000 | 172.00 | top 16% |
“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 62% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-04 | Kelley Wilson BBQ (KWBBQ) 🏅 Kansas City, MO | 34 / 55 (635.2336) | 51 (145.6456) | 29 (160.5140) | 41 (157.0740) | 9 (172.0000) |