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.
Putty's 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 145 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 Putty's BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head18 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Putty's BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1551 at their best, 63 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Putty's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 10 years after Putty's BBQ did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Putty's 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 | 157.1772 | 157.1772 | 157.18 | top 76% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.7028 | 153.7028 | 153.70 | top 81% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 136.5372 | 136.5372 | 136.54 | top 99% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 144.5604 | 144.5604 | 144.56 | top 90% |
“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 94% | 82.2% | 82.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 572 / 606 (591.9776) | 461 (157.1772) | 490 (153.7028) | 597 (136.5372) | 546 (144.5604) |