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.
D&E Fine Wine Group 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 134 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 D&E Fine Wine Group has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1531 at their best, 44 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 D&E Fine Wine Group's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after D&E Fine Wine Group did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with D&E Fine Wine Group 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 D&E Fine Wine Group's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 120.5028 | 120.5028 | 120.50 | top 99% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.7884 | 146.7884 | 146.79 | top 93% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.9656 | 143.9656 | 143.97 | top 97% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 139.9660 | 139.9660 | 139.97 | top 96% |
“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 99% | 76.6% | 76.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 549 / 557 (551.2228) | 552 (120.5028) | 518 (146.7884) | 538 (143.9656) | 532 (139.9660) |