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.
Butts & Guts 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 132 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 Butts & Guts BBQ 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 5 years after Butts & Guts BBQ did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Butts & Guts 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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 169.1084 | 171.69 | top 18% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1544 | 155.4856 | 158.32 | top 71% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5828 | 162.2400 | 165.41 | top 39% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6572 | 143.9428 | 150.80 | top 75% |
“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 67% | 88.5% | 88.5% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 49% | 91% | 91% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-05-13 | 21st Annual Platte City BBQ Cook-off At Basswood Resort Platte City, MO | 34 / 51 (637.1196) | 12 (169.1084) | 39 (155.4856) | 12 (168.5828) | 48 (143.9428) |
| 2015-05-15 | 20th Annual Platte City BBQ Cook-Off Platte City, MO | 25 / 51 (655.3144) | 6 (174.2628) | 33 (161.1544) | 28 (162.2400) | 29 (157.6572) |