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.
KC's Fine Swine 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 146 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 KC's Fine Swine 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 8 years after KC's Fine Swine did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with KC's Fine Swine 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 | 153.1084 | 149.0856 | 151.10 | top 95% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9656 | 138.8572 | 151.41 | top 79% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8800 | 146.8112 | 152.85 | top 85% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3828 | 155.9772 | 159.68 | top 64% |
“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% | 86.1% | 86.1% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 84.8% | 84.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-01 | Brews, Blues & Bar-B-Q Cookoff Lansing, KS | 31 / 33 (619.8624) | 31 (153.1084) | 19 (163.9656) | 33 (146.8112) | 26 (155.9772) |
| 2014-08-22 | Smokin' on Oak Bonner Springs, KS | 29 / 30 (610.2056) | 29 (149.0856) | 30 (138.8572) | 21 (158.8800) | 15 (163.3828) |