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.
BBQ Shogun - Japan 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 125 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 BBQ Shogun - Japan 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 BBQ Shogun - Japan's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BBQ Shogun - Japan on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where BBQ Shogun - Japan's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where BBQ Shogun - Japan's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3828 | 155.3828 | 155.38 | top 87% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7256 | 169.7256 | 169.73 | top 26% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6456 | 153.6456 | 153.65 | top 84% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8572 | 170.8572 | 170.86 | top 22% |
“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 63% | 90.2% | 90.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-12 | 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 294 / 468 (649.6112) | 406 (155.3828) | 121 (169.7256) | 393 (153.6456) | 105 (170.8572) |