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.
Keepers of the Que has 1 rated contest — 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 124 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 Keepers of the Que has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Keepers of the Que's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Keepers of the Que on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Keepers of the Que's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Keepers of the Que's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Keepers of the Que did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.2744 | 174.2744 | 174.27 | top 16% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8344 | 158.8344 | 158.83 | top 84% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1084 | 169.1084 | 169.11 | top 47% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.7884 | 158.7884 | 158.79 | top 69% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 55% | 91.8% | 91.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-10 | The River Grill before the Big Chill Cincinnati, OH | 27 / 49 (661.0056) | 8 (174.2744) | 41 (158.8344) | 23 (169.1084) | 34 (158.7884) |