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 Elbow'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 151 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 Elbow'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 Fat Elbow's BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Fat Elbow's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Fat Elbow's BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after Fat Elbow's BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Fat Elbow'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 | 146.2400 | 146.2400 | 146.24 | top 94% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 135.4056 | 135.4056 | 135.41 | top 100% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.8116 | 150.8116 | 150.81 | top 90% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.1316 | 153.1316 | 153.13 | top 76% |
“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 98% | 81.3% | 81.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-27 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 100 / 102 (585.5888) | 96 (146.2400) | 102 (135.4056) | 92 (150.8116) | 78 (153.1316) |