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.
F.I.T.B. 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 153 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 F.I.T.B. BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 11 years after F.I.T.B. BBQ did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with F.I.T.B. BBQ 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-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where F.I.T.B. BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4972 | 164.6060 | 168.05 | top 39% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5828 | 142.2288 | 151.41 | top 91% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4516 | 159.4056 | 161.43 | top 65% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9772 | 141.1316 | 148.55 | top 72% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 95% | 87.5% | 87.5% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 59% | 87.4% | 87.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-25 | Border War Barbeque 🏅 Osawatomie, KS | 42 / 44 (629.7720) | 29 (164.6060) | 38 (160.5828) | 32 (163.4516) | 42 (141.1316) |
| 2014-08-22 | East Central State BBQ Cook Off Paola Roots Festival Paola, KS | 41 / 69 (629.1088) | 9 (171.4972) | 66 (142.2288) | 39 (159.4056) | 33 (155.9772) |