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.
Rubbin Butts-Bone In 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 141 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 Rubbin Butts-Bone In 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-headThey turned up 9 years after Rubbin Butts-Bone In did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Rubbin Butts-Bone In 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-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 | 163.9888 | 158.2744 | 161.13 | top 74% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8800 | 158.2516 | 158.57 | top 87% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4172 | 162.2628 | 164.84 | top 67% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2744 | 161.7028 | 165.99 | top 47% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 78% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 73% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookin on the Kaw | 2 | 28 | 0 | top 75% | 2016-10-07 |
| 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 73% | 89.8% | 89.8% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 78% | 91% | 91% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-07 | Cookin on the Kaw DeSoto, KS | 41 / 56 (646.2060) | 36 (163.9888) | 48 (158.2516) | 39 (162.2628) | 35 (161.7028) |
| 2015-10-09 | Cookin on the Kaw DeSoto, KS | 28 / 36 (654.8460) | 30 (158.2744) | 32 (158.8800) | 23 (167.4172) | 11 (170.2744) |