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.
Americo 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 144 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 Americo has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1531 at their best, 44 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 9 contests, alongside a 33% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after Americo did, first appearing in 2018.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Americo on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9772 | 132.5256 | 146.25 | top 85% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2628 | 142.2516 | 154.26 | top 65% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.0000 | 157.6684 | 158.83 | top 64% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9428 | 151.3944 | 155.67 | top 64% |
“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 61% | 89.7% | 89.7% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 81.1% | 81.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 336 / 552 (646.1828) | 390 (159.9772) | 218 (166.2628) | 360 (160.0000) | 319 (159.9428) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 492 / 535 (583.8400) | 527 (132.5256) | 486 (142.2516) | 333 (157.6684) | 379 (151.3944) |