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.
stuttering Rich and Sparky's BBQ crew 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 120 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 stuttering Rich and Sparky's BBQ crew 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 stuttering Rich and Sparky's BBQ crew's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with stuttering Rich and Sparky's BBQ crew 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 | 162.7884 | 157.1772 | 159.98 | top 63% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 176.0344 | 165.7144 | 170.87 | top 14% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2400 | 154.2972 | 156.27 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8572 | 161.1428 | 162.00 | top 43% |
“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 | 0% | top 40% | 91.7% | 91.7% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 49% | 88.7% | 88.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 223 / 552 (659.9200) | 335 (162.7884) | 17 (176.0344) | 409 (158.2400) | 254 (162.8572) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 263 / 535 (638.3316) | 346 (157.1772) | 129 (165.7144) | 390 (154.2972) | 213 (161.1428) |