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.
PAPA BROWNS 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 117 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 PAPA BROWNS BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1530 at their best, 35 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head64 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where PAPA BROWNS BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with PAPA BROWNS BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after PAPA BROWNS BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where PAPA BROWNS BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1656 | 169.1656 | 169.17 | top 27% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.0000 | 156.0000 | 156.00 | top 78% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9540 | 155.9540 | 155.95 | top 82% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8456 | 154.8456 | 154.85 | top 71% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 72% | 88.3% | 88.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 403 / 557 (635.9652) | 151 (169.1656) | 432 (156.0000) | 458 (155.9540) | 397 (154.8456) |