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.
SAMMY SAUSAGE AND JOE BEEF BBQ 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 125 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 SAMMY SAUSAGE AND JOE BEEF BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head12 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where SAMMY SAUSAGE AND JOE BEEF BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1530 at their best, 35 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head27 contests and no Grand Championship yet.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SAMMY SAUSAGE AND JOE BEEF BBQ 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 | 161.1316 | 156.5828 | 158.86 | top 64% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1544 | 153.7716 | 155.46 | top 70% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7028 | 153.7144 | 161.71 | top 48% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3944 | 150.7772 | 157.09 | top 56% |
“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 82% | 86% | 86% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 38% | 89.8% | 89.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 499 / 606 (619.3948) | 376 (161.1316) | 487 (153.7716) | 501 (153.7144) | 487 (150.7772) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 201 / 535 (646.8344) | 357 (156.5828) | 321 (157.1544) | 69 (169.7028) | 168 (163.3944) |