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.
SUTHERN COMFORT - KS 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 119 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 SUTHERN COMFORT - KS has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where SUTHERN COMFORT - KS's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after SUTHERN COMFORT - KS did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SUTHERN COMFORT - KS 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.8572 | 161.1428 | 168.00 | top 43% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2516 | 140.5488 | 153.40 | top 74% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9884 | 138.2744 | 147.13 | top 97% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.7884 | 153.7144 | 154.25 | 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 79% | 90.5% | 90.5% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 82.5% | 82.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-07-01 | Hutchfest BBQ Cook-off Hutchinson, KS | 30 / 38 (651.8856) | 5 (174.8572) | 18 (166.2516) | 36 (155.9884) | 35 (154.7884) |
| 2014-08-22 | When Pigs Fly BBQ Contest & Fly In McPherson, KS | 35 / 36 (593.6804) | 26 (161.1428) | 36 (140.5488) | 36 (138.2744) | 31 (153.7144) |