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.
Budwieser 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 145 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 Budwieser has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1526 at their best, 35 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Budwieser's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after Budwieser did, first appearing in 2026.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Budwieser on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Budwieser's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8572 | 170.8572 | 170.86 | top 22% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5144 | 152.5144 | 152.51 | top 90% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9884 | 151.9884 | 151.99 | top 88% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.1200 | 153.1200 | 153.12 | top 82% |
“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 82% | 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 | 384 / 468 (628.4800) | 104 (170.8572) | 419 (152.5144) | 410 (151.9884) | 385 (153.1200) |