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.
Banzai Burners 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 116 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 Banzai Burners 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 Banzai Burners's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Banzai Burners 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 Banzai Burners's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before Banzai Burners's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Banzai Burners's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.7372 | 149.7372 | 149.74 | top 94% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.1200 | 145.1200 | 145.12 | top 96% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 132.5484 | 132.5484 | 132.55 | top 99% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 139.4056 | 139.4056 | 139.41 | top 96% |
“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 22% | — | — |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-12 | 40th American Royal World Series of Barbecue- OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 101 / 468 (475.4628) | 438 (149.7372) | 448 (145.1200) | 464 (132.5484) | 451 (139.4056) |