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.
Triple Fat Back 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 129 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 Triple Fat Back BBQ 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-headThey turned up 10 years after Triple Fat Back BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Triple Fat Back 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7372 | 166.3088 | 170.02 | top 24% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8344 | 153.7600 | 160.30 | top 58% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9428 | 151.3940 | 155.67 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6912 | 147.4172 | 150.55 | top 78% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 70% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 65% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 70% | 89.7% | 89.7% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 65% | 87.1% | 87.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-15 | Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out Kearney, MO | 26 / 37 (645.6568) | 7 (173.7372) | 17 (166.8344) | 34 (151.3940) | 28 (153.6912) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 347 / 535 (627.4288) | 151 (166.3088) | 379 (153.7600) | 287 (159.9428) | 432 (147.4172) |