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.
Thin- Beautiful- Blue Smoke/ Team Lion's 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 101 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 Thin- Beautiful- Blue Smoke/ Team Lion's 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 5 years after Thin- Beautiful- Blue Smoke/ Team Lion's did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Thin- Beautiful- Blue Smoke/ Team Lion's 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 167.3944 | 169.11 | top 52% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4284 | 162.8344 | 167.13 | top 55% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5600 | 159.3944 | 161.98 | top 81% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8916 | 156.5372 | 157.71 | top 84% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) | 2 | 120 | 0 | top 74% | 2017-09-01 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 74% | 91.3% | 91.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-01 | 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 226 / 407 (657.1088) | 189 (167.3944) | 88 (171.4284) | 313 (159.3944) | 283 (158.8916) |
| 2017-08-31 | 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (INVITATIONAL) unrated Kansas City, KS | 120 / 129 (654.7544) | 73 (170.8228) | 113 (162.8344) | 111 (164.5600) | 127 (156.5372) |