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.
Rockin R Style 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 145 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 Rockin R Style 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 10 years after Rockin R Style BBQ did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Rockin R Style 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-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Rockin R Style BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2628 | 146.2400 | 154.25 | top 75% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5372 | 161.1316 | 162.83 | top 56% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1540 | 155.9428 | 158.55 | top 75% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.4056 | 150.2400 | 154.82 | top 70% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 61% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 89% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 75% | 88.7% | 87.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-09 | Smoke on the Water Topeka, KS | 20 / 33 (638.7428) | 17 (162.2628) | 17 (161.1316) | 24 (155.9428) | 17 (159.4056) |
| 2015-07-31 | Rossville Tall Corn Festival BBQ Contest Rossville, KS | 41 / 46 (622.1712) | 45 (146.2400) | 28 (164.5372) | 36 (161.1540) | 41 (150.2400) |