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.
Plumbers II 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 156 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 Plumbers II has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head10 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Plumbers II's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 19 contests, alongside a 11% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Plumbers II 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.5256 | 148.5028 | 148.51 | top 96% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2516 | 150.8228 | 158.54 | top 76% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1428 | 149.1084 | 153.13 | top 96% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.4400 | 138.2748 | 146.86 | top 85% |
“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 | 180 | 0 | top 96% | 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 96% | 84.7% | 84.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 517 / 557 (603.8740) | 512 (148.5028) | 491 (150.8228) | 520 (149.1084) | 388 (155.4400) |
| 2016-10-28 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(INVITATIONAL) unrated Kansas City, KS | 180 / 180 (610.1948) | 180 (148.5256) | 114 (166.2516) | 176 (157.1428) | 180 (138.2748) |