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.
Not So Bad Cookers 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 110 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 Not So Bad Cookers 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 Not So Bad Cookers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Not So Bad Cookers did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Not So Bad Cookers 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 | 165.6800 | 157.6800 | 161.68 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8572 | 157.6572 | 158.26 | top 79% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 162.8000 | 167.96 | top 45% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 152.5256 | 161.97 | top 53% |
“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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 67% | 91.6% | 90.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 225 / 552 (659.8744) | 431 (157.6800) | 400 (157.6572) | 67 (173.1200) | 77 (171.4172) |
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 153 / 165 (639.8628) | 112 (165.6800) | 141 (158.8572) | 130 (162.8000) | 153 (152.5256) |