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.
R.J.'s Bob-Be-Que 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 115 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 R.J.'s Bob-Be-Que has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head23 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where R.J.'s Bob-Be-Que's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2014.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with R.J.'s Bob-Be-Que on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 14% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ 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 | 158.2744 | 151.3828 | 154.83 | top 83% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2628 | 150.7888 | 154.53 | top 77% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2628 | 159.9656 | 163.11 | top 46% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1316 | 152.0344 | 154.58 | top 62% |
“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 4% | 70.6% | 70.6% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 61% | 88% | 88% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 25 / 606 (508.5712) | 539 (151.3828) | 529 (150.7888) | 228 (166.2628) | 467 (152.0344) |
| 2014-09-19 | Battle of the Brisket Mission, KS | 28 / 46 (633.6344) | 35 (158.2744) | 31 (158.2628) | 25 (159.9656) | 22 (157.1316) |