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.
The Butt Whisperers 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 107 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 The Butt Whisperers 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 The Butt Whisperers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after The Butt Whisperers did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with The Butt Whisperers 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 | 162.2628 | 146.3084 | 154.29 | top 77% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.0116 | 166.2628 | 167.14 | top 35% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1428 | 159.3828 | 164.26 | top 48% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.0344 | 158.2972 | 165.17 | top 36% |
“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 25% | 23.2% | 23.2% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 51% | 90.8% | 90.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 153 / 606 (166.8456) | 356 (162.2628) | 182 (168.0116) | 423 (159.3828) | 369 (158.2972) |
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 281 / 552 (653.7484) | 525 (146.3084) | 221 (166.2628) | 146 (169.1428) | 61 (172.0344) |