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.
Those Guys BBQ 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 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 Those Guys BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head12 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Those Guys BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1531 at their best, 35 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 10 years after Those Guys BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Those Guys BBQ 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1428 | 163.4744 | 166.31 | top 33% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1428 | 149.7372 | 155.44 | top 70% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4056 | 154.2972 | 162.85 | top 45% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3828 | 139.4172 | 147.40 | top 81% |
“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 46% | 91.3% | 91.3% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 81% | 84.3% | 84.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 252 / 552 (657.0740) | 153 (169.1428) | 327 (161.1428) | 97 (171.4056) | 386 (155.3828) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 434 / 535 (606.9260) | 207 (163.4744) | 431 (149.7372) | 391 (154.2972) | 490 (139.4172) |