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.
It's My Rib In A Box 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 128 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 It's My Rib In A Box has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after It's My Rib In A Box did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with It's My Rib In A Box 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 | 158.8800 | 137.1428 | 148.01 | top 77% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8684 | 150.3084 | 156.59 | top 59% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5944 | 158.8572 | 159.73 | top 51% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1200 | 140.5944 | 148.86 | top 71% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Lenexa BBQ Battle-Kansas State Championship | 2 | 131 | 0 | top 78% | 2016-06-24 |
| 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 72% | 85.8% | 85.8% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 84.5% | 84.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-24 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle-Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 131 / 183 (617.7256) | 182 (137.1428) | 67 (162.8684) | 83 (160.5944) | 92 (157.1200) |
| 2015-06-26 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 155 / 183 (608.6400) | 101 (158.8800) | 150 (150.3084) | 103 (158.8572) | 167 (140.5944) |