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.
Rapp 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 144 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 Rapp BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Rapp BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Rapp BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1531 at their best, 44 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head56 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 7% top-10 finishes rather than wins.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Rapp 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 | 153.6800 | 153.6800 | 153.68 | top 84% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2972 | 174.2972 | 174.30 | top 7% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.0000 | 20.0000 | 20.00 | top 99% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.6684 | 149.6684 | 149.67 | top 82% |
“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 98% | 69.1% | 69.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 596 / 606 (497.6456) | 512 (153.6800) | 42 (174.2972) | 602 (20.0000) | 497 (149.6684) |