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.
5 Alarm Fire 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 136 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 5 Alarm Fire 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 5 Alarm Fire 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-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where 5 Alarm Fire's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2516 | 145.6456 | 151.95 | top 93% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2628 | 155.3828 | 160.82 | top 70% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2516 | 155.9656 | 157.11 | top 81% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.9772 | 146.8000 | 147.39 | top 88% |
“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 85% | 87.6% | 87.6% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 91% | 83.9% | 83.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-06 | Johnson County BBQ Challenge(JUDGES FULL) Warrensburg, MO | 40 / 47 (630.7432) | 40 (158.2516) | 25 (166.2628) | 35 (158.2516) | 42 (147.9772) |
| 2017-10-27 | Border War Barbeque Osawatomie, KS | 42 / 46 (603.7940) | 46 (145.6456) | 40 (155.3828) | 40 (155.9656) | 40 (146.8000) |