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.
Wendel's BBQ Products 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 152 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 Wendel's BBQ Products has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Wendel's BBQ Products 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-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ 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 | 168.0000 | 20.0000 | 94.00 | top 71% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 178.3200 | 134.6628 | 156.49 | top 49% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.0000 | 20.0000 | 20.00 | top 99% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8000 | 149.1084 | 151.95 | top 83% |
“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 99% | 45% | 45% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 98% | 69.6% | 69.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-15 | 39th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 462 / 467 (323.7712) | 467 (20.0000) | 458 (134.6628) | 463 (20.0000) | 408 (149.1084) |
| 2017-09-01 | 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 398 / 407 (501.1200) | 175 (168.0000) | 3 (178.3200) | — | 320 (154.8000) |