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.
Los Vaqueros 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Los Vaqueros has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Los Vaqueros's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Los Vaqueros 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-headThey turned up 7 years after Los Vaqueros did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ 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 | 138.3200 | 136.5372 | 137.43 | top 98% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5600 | 145.7144 | 149.14 | top 84% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.8344 | 139.4400 | 153.14 | top 52% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 156.5600 | 138.2172 | 147.39 | top 59% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 77% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 82% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 82% | 81.6% | 81.6% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 77% | 81.5% | 81.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-04-17 | Bynum Schools Best of the Basin BBQ Championship Midland, TX | 36 / 44 (587.3032) | 42 (136.5372) | 40 (145.7144) | 10 (166.8344) | 37 (138.2172) |
| 2014-10-10 | Bliss, Brews & Que Fort Bliss, TX | 20 / 26 (586.8800) | 26 (138.3200) | 20 (152.5600) | 21 (139.4400) | 9 (156.5600) |