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.
PANIC BARBECUE CO. 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 119 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 PANIC BARBECUE CO. 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 PANIC BARBECUE CO. on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after PANIC BARBECUE CO. did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where PANIC BARBECUE CO.'s is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4400 | 162.8800 | 165.16 | top 50% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2288 | 154.2516 | 156.24 | top 77% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5484 | 151.3828 | 159.97 | top 62% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5372 | 161.6800 | 165.11 | top 43% |
“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 62% | 90.5% | 90.5% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 16% | 66.8% | 66.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-01 | 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 253 / 407 (651.9200) | 184 (167.4400) | 341 (154.2516) | 144 (168.5484) | 244 (161.6800) |
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 96 / 606 (481.0740) | 333 (162.8800) | 429 (158.2288) | 532 (151.3828) | 162 (168.5372) |