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.
Red nova slabs 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 133 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 Red nova slabs 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 Red nova slabs's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 5 years before Red nova slabs's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Red nova slabs 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 Red nova slabs's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Red nova slabs's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8688 | 170.8688 | 170.87 | top 28% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.4516 | 155.4516 | 155.45 | top 84% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5256 | 160.5256 | 160.53 | top 69% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.1200 | 145.1200 | 145.12 | top 92% |
“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 80% | 87.8% | 87.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-15 | 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 375 / 467 (631.9660) | 130 (170.8688) | 391 (155.4516) | 321 (160.5256) | 431 (145.1200) |