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.
White Buffalo 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 146 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 White Buffalo has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1505 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after White Buffalo did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with White Buffalo 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 | 157.1428 | 149.7028 | 153.42 | top 82% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9544 | 151.9544 | 151.95 | top 90% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.0000 | 142.7656 | 151.38 | top 87% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2860 | 136.0000 | 147.14 | 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 93% | 87.1% | 87.1% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 59.5% | 59.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-08 | *Derby BBQ Festival Derby, KS | 37 / 40 (627.3832) | 33 (157.1428) | 36 (151.9544) | 31 (160.0000) | 31 (158.2860) |
| 2017-07-07 | Wine Country Big Q Competition and Festival Petaluma, CA | 50 / 50 (428.4684) | 41 (149.7028) | — | 48 (142.7656) | 49 (136.0000) |