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.
Racks N Backs BBQ 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 122 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 Racks N Backs BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Racks N Backs BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Racks N Backs BBQ 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-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2017.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1428 | 141.7372 | 149.44 | top 75% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.8000 | 146.8000 | 146.80 | top 85% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2744 | 160.5372 | 161.41 | top 44% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8344 | 157.7144 | 160.27 | top 39% |
“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 97% | 63.9% | 63.9% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 59% | 87.4% | 87.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-22 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle Lenexa, KS | 180 / 185 (459.9888) | 177 (141.7372) | — | 87 (160.5372) | 87 (157.7144) |
| 2017-06-23 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle-Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 109 / 184 (629.0516) | 100 (157.1428) | 157 (146.8000) | 75 (162.2744) | 58 (162.8344) |