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.
KC's BBQ Sauce & Glaze has 1 rated contest — 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 147 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 KC's BBQ Sauce & Glaze has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where KC's BBQ Sauce & Glaze's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after KC's BBQ Sauce & Glaze did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with KC's BBQ Sauce & Glaze on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where KC's BBQ Sauce & Glaze's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where KC's BBQ Sauce & Glaze's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1428 | 161.1428 | 161.14 | top 81% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5488 | 160.5488 | 160.55 | top 73% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.3716 | 151.3716 | 151.37 | top 97% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2628 | 154.2628 | 154.26 | top 81% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 87.1% | 87.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-16 | Smoking In The Foothills Barbecue Competition and Festival Lenoir, NC | 33 / 37 (627.3260) | 30 (161.1428) | 27 (160.5488) | 36 (151.3716) | 30 (154.2628) |