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.
Tornado Alley 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 147 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Tornado Alley Bbq has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1529 at their best, 44 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Tornado Alley Bbq on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Tornado Alley Bbq did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2628 | 161.1660 | 161.71 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9772 | 145.0744 | 154.53 | top 77% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.3484 | 149.6684 | 150.51 | top 92% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.5484 | 159.9428 | 166.25 | top 38% |
“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 76% | 88.5% | 88.5% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 81% | 87.3% | 87.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-12 | 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 356 / 468 (637.5312) | 302 (162.2628) | 272 (163.9772) | 419 (151.3484) | 297 (159.9428) |
| 2017-09-01 | 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 331 / 407 (628.4572) | 284 (161.1660) | 390 (145.0744) | 381 (149.6684) | 55 (172.5484) |