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.
10 Pt BBQ 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 118 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 10 Pt BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head11 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where 10 Pt BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1531 at their best, 35 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head25 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 8% top-10 finishes rather than wins.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with 10 Pt BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after 10 Pt BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5028 | 154.7772 | 157.64 | top 83% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 161.1428 | 165.98 | top 52% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9428 | 155.9428 | 157.94 | top 89% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.0116 | 158.8000 | 165.41 | top 47% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) | 2 | 157 | 0 | top 80% | 2016-10-29 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 80% | 91.3% | 89.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 400 / 557 (636.3884) | 373 (160.5028) | 353 (161.1428) | 460 (155.9428) | 344 (158.8000) |
| 2016-10-28 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(INVITATIONAL) unrated Kansas City, KS | 157 / 180 (657.5544) | 178 (154.7772) | 72 (170.8228) | 170 (159.9428) | 58 (172.0116) |