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.
OMB Cooking Team 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 132 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 OMB Cooking Team 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 OMB Cooking Team's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after OMB Cooking Team did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with OMB Cooking Team 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 | 172.0228 | 151.4056 | 161.71 | top 53% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.8000 | 148.5600 | 149.68 | top 87% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.9540 | 142.8456 | 145.40 | top 97% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6800 | 149.7028 | 153.69 | top 72% |
“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 96% | 84.4% | 84.4% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 85.2% | 85.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-04-10 | The Best Damn BBQ Contest Smithville, MO | 50 / 52 (607.8396) | 49 (151.4056) | 48 (150.8000) | 51 (147.9540) | 35 (157.6800) |
| 2014-09-26 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 95 / 112 (613.1312) | 14 (172.0228) | 91 (148.5600) | 108 (142.8456) | 86 (149.7028) |