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.
Panic Barbecue 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 129 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 Panic Barbecue has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head13 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Panic Barbecue's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1524 at their best, 31 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after Panic Barbecue did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Panic Barbecue on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ 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 | 165.7028 | 161.7028 | 163.70 | top 57% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1200 | 155.9772 | 158.55 | top 74% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5256 | 151.9428 | 156.23 | top 79% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.9144 | 160.5256 | 161.72 | top 55% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 64% | 90.3% | 90.3% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 78% | 87.5% | 87.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-15 | 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 298 / 467 (650.2628) | 247 (165.7028) | 329 (161.1200) | 319 (160.5256) | 250 (162.9144) |
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 432 / 557 (630.1484) | 343 (161.7028) | 434 (155.9772) | 502 (151.9428) | 318 (160.5256) |