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.
Wiedenmann Bros. 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 157 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 Wiedenmann Bros. BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Wiedenmann Bros. BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headOne contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Wiedenmann Bros. BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.3200 | 154.2056 | 158.26 | top 68% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0000 | 157.1772 | 160.59 | top 54% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9656 | 133.7144 | 146.84 | top 82% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2400 | 153.6916 | 157.97 | top 57% |
“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 59% | 90.1% | 90.1% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 83.2% | 83.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 324 / 552 (648.5256) | 338 (162.3200) | 270 (164.0000) | 368 (159.9656) | 274 (162.2400) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 455 / 535 (598.7888) | 402 (154.2056) | 319 (157.1772) | 524 (133.7144) | 341 (153.6916) |