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.
Rubbin Down A Dream 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 118 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 Rubbin Down A Dream has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head27 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Rubbin Down A Dream's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1593 at their best, 97 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Rubbin Down A Dream 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 Rubbin Down A Dream's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8456 | 166.8456 | 166.85 | top 44% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6572 | 161.6572 | 161.66 | top 68% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9656 | 167.9656 | 167.97 | top 39% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9544 | 155.9544 | 155.95 | top 75% |
“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 60% | 90.6% | 90.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-12 | 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 279 / 468 (652.4228) | 207 (166.8456) | 320 (161.6572) | 184 (167.9656) | 352 (155.9544) |