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.
Sure Flow 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 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 Sure Flow BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1522 at their best, 33 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Sure Flow BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Sure Flow BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Sure Flow BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Sure Flow 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 | 130.0800 | 130.0800 | 130.08 | top 98% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5484 | 156.5484 | 156.55 | top 77% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9772 | 159.9772 | 159.98 | top 71% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5372 | 156.5372 | 156.54 | top 67% |
“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 94% | 83.8% | 83.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 521 / 557 (603.1428) | 548 (130.0800) | 427 (156.5484) | 395 (159.9772) | 374 (156.5372) |