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.
Big Daddy and the Butt Rubbers* has 1 rated contest — 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 151 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Big Daddy and the Butt Rubbers*'s is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Big Daddy and the Butt Rubbers* did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Big Daddy and the Butt Rubbers* on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Big Daddy and the Butt Rubbers*'s is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Big Daddy and the Butt Rubbers*'s is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Big Daddy and the Butt Rubbers*'s is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 142.8228 | 142.8228 | 142.82 | top 100% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0000 | 164.0000 | 164.00 | top 49% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4056 | 167.4056 | 167.41 | top 43% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 142.8460 | 142.8460 | 142.85 | top 94% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 94% | 85.7% | 85.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-22 | *Jammin In JC Blues & BBQ Festival Junction City, KS | 33 / 35 (617.0744) | 35 (142.8228) | 17 (164.0000) | 15 (167.4056) | 33 (142.8460) |