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.
Steinman Catering 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 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 Steinman Catering has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head16 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Steinman Catering's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Steinman Catering did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Steinman Catering on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Steinman Catering's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Steinman Catering's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9884 | 167.9884 | 167.99 | top 43% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7028 | 165.7028 | 165.70 | top 47% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 139.3372 | 139.3372 | 139.34 | top 98% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.3600 | 151.3600 | 151.36 | top 85% |
“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 84% | 86.7% | 86.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-01 | 38th American Royal World Series of Barbecue (OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 343 / 407 (624.3884) | 176 (167.9884) | 193 (165.7028) | 400 (139.3372) | 345 (151.3600) |