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.
Pot Bellies Barbecue 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 142 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 Pot Bellies Barbecue has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1540 at their best, 60 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head41 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Pot Bellies Barbecue's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after Pot Bellies Barbecue did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Pot Bellies Barbecue 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 | 160.5372 | 155.4056 | 157.97 | top 68% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4284 | 163.4400 | 165.43 | top 37% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 142.8228 | 142.2400 | 142.53 | top 98% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.7028 | 151.9772 | 152.84 | top 72% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship | 2 | 87 | 0 | top 83% | 2016-09-23 |
| 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 87% | 85.7% | 85.7% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 78% | 86.2% | 86.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-23 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 97 / 111 (617.0512) | 89 (155.4056) | 27 (167.4284) | 109 (142.2400) | 85 (151.9772) |
| 2015-09-25 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 87 / 112 (620.5028) | 63 (160.5372) | 55 (163.4400) | 109 (142.8228) | 76 (153.7028) |