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.
KPMG Pork 'n' Bean Counters 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 147 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team KPMG Pork 'n' Bean Counters 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-headLevel with KPMG Pork 'n' Bean Counters on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head20 contests and no Grand Championship yet.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after KPMG Pork 'n' Bean Counters did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ 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 | 171.4628 | 151.9772 | 161.72 | top 52% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.7884 | 146.2972 | 146.54 | top 93% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.8800 | 157.1428 | 166.01 | top 40% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.8572 | 149.0628 | 149.96 | top 83% |
“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 81% | 86.7% | 86.7% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 80% | 86.7% | 86.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 450 / 557 (624.0116) | 491 (151.9772) | 521 (146.2972) | 29 (174.8800) | 457 (150.8572) |
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 483 / 606 (624.4568) | 96 (171.4628) | 560 (146.7884) | 456 (157.1428) | 508 (149.0628) |