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.
Wilks Broadcasting 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 109 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 Wilks Broadcasting 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-headThey turned up 9 years after Wilks Broadcasting did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Wilks Broadcasting 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 | 169.7256 | 163.4516 | 166.59 | top 35% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1200 | 155.9544 | 158.54 | top 60% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.0856 | 160.5600 | 160.82 | top 55% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2400 | 154.8572 | 158.55 | top 54% |
“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 65% | 89.2% | 89.2% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 38% | 89.8% | 89.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 359 / 552 (642.2060) | 312 (163.4516) | 430 (155.9544) | 351 (160.5600) | 273 (162.2400) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 205 / 535 (646.7884) | 73 (169.7256) | 220 (161.1200) | 253 (161.0856) | 316 (154.8572) |