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.
FAMILY AFFAIR 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 146 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 FAMILY AFFAIR 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 FAMILY AFFAIR's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head24 contests and no Grand Championship yet.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1511 at their best, 33 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 10 years after FAMILY AFFAIR did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with FAMILY AFFAIR 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 | 158.3312 | 20.0000 | 89.17 | top 88% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.6056 | 146.8572 | 151.73 | top 79% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.2972 | 143.9428 | 147.12 | top 90% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.0572 | 138.2400 | 153.15 | top 59% |
“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 78% | 87.1% | 87.1% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 99% | 63.2% | 63.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 433 / 552 (626.9368) | 416 (158.3312) | 411 (156.6056) | 529 (143.9428) | 142 (168.0572) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 532 / 535 (455.3944) | 535 (20.0000) | 452 (146.8572) | 450 (150.2972) | 494 (138.2400) |