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.
Outlaw Ray 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 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Outlaw Ray 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 9 years after Outlaw Ray did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Outlaw Ray 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 | 161.0972 | 146.8340 | 153.97 | top 69% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6916 | 159.4056 | 164.55 | top 33% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.1200 | 143.9540 | 146.54 | top 86% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6800 | 146.2400 | 149.96 | top 70% |
“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 75% | 84.8% | 84.8% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 61% | 86% | 86% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-01 | Bixby BBQ'N Blues Festival Bixby, OK | 61 / 81 (610.6968) | 42 (161.0972) | 41 (159.4056) | 74 (143.9540) | 67 (146.2400) |
| 2014-05-02 | Bixby BBQ'N Blues Festival Bixby, OK | 49 / 80 (619.3256) | 69 (146.8340) | 13 (169.6916) | 65 (149.1200) | 46 (153.6800) |