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.
Shawnee Parkway Cracklin Butts 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 146 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 Shawnee Parkway Cracklin Butts has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 17 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 11 years after Shawnee Parkway Cracklin Butts did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Shawnee Parkway Cracklin Butts 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2512 | 145.1428 | 149.70 | top 93% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.9888 | 143.9200 | 143.95 | top 99% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.0000 | 154.8344 | 155.42 | top 86% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.0972 | 144.0000 | 146.55 | top 93% |
“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 97% | 82.4% | 82.4% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 83.1% | 83.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-23 | Murphysboro BBQ Cookoff Murphysboro, IL | 62 / 64 (592.9944) | 64 (145.1428) | 64 (143.9200) | 59 (154.8344) | 57 (149.0972) |
| 2013-09-19 | Murphysboro Barbecue Cook-off Murphysboro, IL | 73 / 76 (598.2400) | 66 (154.2512) | 74 (143.9888) | 60 (156.0000) | 73 (144.0000) |