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.
Rub it. Slap it. Smoke it. Eat it! 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 121 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Rub it. Slap it. Smoke it. Eat it! has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Rub it. Slap it. Smoke it. Eat it! did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Rub it. Slap it. Smoke it. Eat it! 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1656 | 163.9884 | 164.58 | top 31% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9772 | 143.4056 | 147.69 | top 84% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8572 | 157.1084 | 159.98 | top 49% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5828 | 154.8228 | 157.70 | top 43% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship | 2 | 85 | 0 | top 51% | 2015-06-26 |
| 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 46% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 57% | 86.8% | 86.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-26 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 85 / 183 (634.8340) | 50 (165.1656) | 144 (151.9772) | 119 (157.1084) | 71 (160.5828) |
| 2014-06-27 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 104 / 184 (625.0740) | 65 (163.9884) | 163 (143.4056) | 59 (162.8572) | 88 (154.8228) |