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.
Eagle Creek BBQ 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 128 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 Eagle Creek BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head27 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Eagle Creek BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1531 at their best, 35 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Eagle Creek BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Eagle Creek BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Eagle Creek BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8572 | 154.8572 | 154.86 | top 81% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4172 | 167.4172 | 167.42 | top 34% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6456 | 153.6456 | 153.65 | top 84% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9656 | 167.9656 | 167.97 | top 29% |
“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 60% | 89.4% | 89.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 365 / 606 (643.8856) | 493 (154.8572) | 206 (167.4172) | 507 (153.6456) | 173 (167.9656) |