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.
Team Art-A-Que 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 143 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 Team Art-A-Que 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 Team Art-A-Que's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Team Art-A-Que did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Team Art-A-Que 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 | 166.8572 | 154.3088 | 160.58 | top 75% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.3200 | 139.9656 | 145.14 | top 98% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.3200 | 165.7372 | 168.03 | top 44% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.1316 | 137.6916 | 141.41 | 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 94% | 87.9% | 85.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-07 | Cookin on the Kaw DeSoto, KS | 50 / 56 (632.6288) | 31 (166.8572) | 54 (150.3200) | 24 (170.3200) | 53 (145.1316) |
| 2016-04-08 | The Best Damn BBQ Contest at Smithville Lake Smithville, MO | 52 / 53 (597.7032) | 50 (154.3088) | 53 (139.9656) | 24 (165.7372) | 52 (137.6916) |