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.
Showtime 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Showtime BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1511 at their best, 33 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Showtime 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-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 | 158.2972 | 158.2972 | 158.30 | top 82% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5260 | 144.5372 | 148.53 | top 94% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9884 | 158.8456 | 159.42 | top 78% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.2628 | 145.6916 | 147.98 | top 89% |
“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% | 85% | 74.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-23 | Jammin' in JC BBQ Contest Junction City, KS | 34 / 39 (611.9428) | 32 (158.2972) | 36 (144.5372) | 34 (158.8456) | 35 (150.2628) |
| 2016-09-02 | Homecoming 2016 Vernon, IN | 26 / 26 (458.2060) | — | 25 (152.5260) | 18 (159.9884) | 23 (145.6916) |