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.
JAWBONE BBQ 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 150 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 JAWBONE BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where JAWBONE BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 18 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after JAWBONE BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with JAWBONE BBQ 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.0740 | 149.0740 | 149.07 | top 92% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1316 | 153.1428 | 157.14 | top 73% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4284 | 154.8228 | 161.13 | top 58% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.0856 | 146.7772 | 147.93 | top 88% |
“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% | 64.3% | 64.3% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 85.9% | 85.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 551 / 557 (462.7316) | — | 355 (161.1316) | 467 (154.8228) | 510 (146.7772) |
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 500 / 606 (618.7308) | 556 (149.0740) | 497 (153.1428) | 191 (167.4284) | 506 (149.0856) |