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.
Green Apple 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 Green Apple 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 Green Apple's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Green Apple did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Green Apple 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 | 150.8228 | 149.6344 | 150.23 | top 91% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4516 | 150.8572 | 157.15 | top 72% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1200 | 154.2284 | 155.67 | top 84% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.3372 | 131.3372 | 139.34 | top 94% |
“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 88% | 84% | 84% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 83.3% | 83.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-08 | Smoke in the Spring Osage City, KS | 96 / 109 (604.9488) | 95 (149.6344) | 94 (150.8572) | 81 (157.1200) | 95 (147.3372) |
| 2014-08-01 | Wheels 'N' Squeels BBQ Challenge Olathe, KS | 68 / 70 (599.8400) | 66 (150.8228) | 41 (163.4516) | 66 (154.2284) | 70 (131.3372) |