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.
Beer, Butts & Bones 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 Beer, Butts & Bones has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head19 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Beer, Butts & Bones's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Beer, Butts & Bones did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Beer, Butts & Bones 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-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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.1772 | 164.0344 | 168.61 | top 21% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8456 | 157.6916 | 158.27 | top 64% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.4056 | 148.6056 | 154.01 | top 74% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2628 | 141.0744 | 149.67 | top 75% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Central State BBQ Cook Off Paola Roots Festival | 2 | 39 | 0 | top 65% | 2015-08-28 |
| 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 60% | 88.8% | 88.8% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 70% | 86.3% | 86.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-08-28 | East Central State BBQ Cook Off Paola Roots Festival Paola, KS | 39 / 65 (639.3944) | 23 (164.0344) | 47 (157.6916) | 42 (159.4056) | 37 (158.2628) |
| 2014-08-22 | East Central State BBQ Cook Off Paola Roots Festival Paola, KS | 48 / 69 (621.7028) | 4 (173.1772) | 38 (158.8456) | 58 (148.6056) | 64 (141.0744) |