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.
McCormick Distilling 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 134 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 McCormick Distilling has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 9 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head22 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where McCormick Distilling's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head29 contests and no Grand Championship yet.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after McCormick Distilling did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with McCormick Distilling on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8800 | 164.5828 | 167.73 | top 33% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 162.8344 | 163.13 | top 53% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0228 | 151.4172 | 157.72 | top 68% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.8228 | 140.5372 | 145.68 | top 88% |
“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 62% | 89.2% | 89.2% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 79% | 87% | 87% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 376 / 606 (642.2628) | 273 (164.5828) | 330 (162.8344) | 296 (164.0228) | 485 (150.8228) |
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 438 / 552 (626.2516) | 114 (170.8800) | 284 (163.4172) | 479 (151.4172) | 527 (140.5372) |