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.
Key Temptations 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 157 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 Key Temptations 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 Key Temptations 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-headThey turned up 5 years after Key Temptations did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ 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 | 161.7372 | 158.2628 | 160.00 | top 58% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7140 | 141.6800 | 149.70 | top 80% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6684 | 153.1316 | 157.40 | top 72% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6800 | 147.3716 | 152.53 | top 68% |
“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 76% | 86.8% | 86.8% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 64% | 85.3% | 85.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-04 | *Bixby BBQ'n Blues Festival Bixby, OK | 52 / 68 (625.0168) | 52 (158.2628) | 48 (157.7140) | 49 (161.6684) | 59 (147.3716) |
| 2014-05-02 | Bixby BBQ'N Blues Festival Bixby, OK | 51 / 80 (614.2288) | 31 (161.7372) | 71 (141.6800) | 58 (153.1316) | 40 (157.6800) |