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-Q-Master 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 150 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 KC-Q-Master has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 18 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head24 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where KC-Q-Master's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 12 years after KC-Q-Master did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with KC-Q-Master 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.8228 | 142.2972 | 144.56 | top 94% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2972 | 139.4628 | 150.88 | top 74% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5600 | 143.9540 | 148.26 | top 89% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5828 | 153.1200 | 156.85 | top 60% |
“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 81% | 86.4% | 86.4% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 80.4% | 80.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 493 / 606 (622.2628) | 568 (146.8228) | 338 (162.2972) | 516 (152.5600) | 329 (160.5828) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 499 / 535 (578.8340) | 508 (142.2972) | 498 (139.4628) | 501 (143.9540) | 351 (153.1200) |