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.
Rube-A-Q 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 151 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 Rube-A-Q 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 8 years after Rube-A-Q did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Rube-A-Q on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Rube-A-Q's is still finding its level.
⚔ 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 | 167.9772 | 151.9428 | 159.96 | top 74% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.6060 | 136.5144 | 150.56 | top 83% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1428 | 163.4172 | 166.28 | top 54% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8916 | 158.2056 | 158.55 | top 82% |
“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 98% | 84.8% | 84.8% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 58% | 91.7% | 91.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-03-24 | Firelake BBQ Cook Off (Day 1) Shawnee, OK | 85 / 87 (610.7660) | 84 (151.9428) | 87 (136.5144) | 63 (163.4172) | 72 (158.8916) |
| 2015-03-27 | Firelake BBQ Cook Off Shawnee, OK | 30 / 52 (659.9316) | 27 (167.9772) | 34 (164.6060) | 19 (169.1428) | 42 (158.2056) |