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.
Montgomery Bank 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 128 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 Montgomery Bank has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Montgomery Bank's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after Montgomery Bank did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Montgomery Bank 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 | 163.4172 | 154.2856 | 158.85 | top 60% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8344 | 143.3716 | 149.10 | top 89% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6912 | 153.1312 | 153.41 | top 83% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4172 | 163.9428 | 165.68 | top 24% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Cape Jaycees BBQ Fest | 2 | 28 | 0 | top 64% | 2017-08-18 |
| 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 65% | 87% | 87% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 63% | 87.1% | 87.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-08-18 | *Cape Jaycees BBQ Fest Cape Girardeau, MO | 28 / 43 (626.7540) | 35 (154.2856) | 35 (154.8344) | 38 (153.6912) | 11 (163.9428) |
| 2016-08-19 | Cape Jaycees BBQ Fest Cape Girardeau, MO | 32 / 51 (627.3372) | 20 (163.4172) | 49 (143.3716) | 40 (153.1312) | 11 (167.4172) |