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.
Charlotte's Rib 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 150 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Charlotte's Rib BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1533 at their best, 48 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-headThey turned up 10 years after Charlotte's Rib BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Charlotte's Rib 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 | 160.5484 | 143.3600 | 151.95 | top 75% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2744 | 157.7028 | 165.99 | top 33% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1084 | 158.3200 | 159.71 | top 60% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 144.5372 | 141.1200 | 142.83 | top 92% |
“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 82% | 86.6% | 86.6% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 73% | 85.8% | 85.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 452 / 552 (623.2800) | 536 (143.3600) | 41 (174.2744) | 345 (161.1084) | 510 (144.5372) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 393 / 535 (617.6912) | 283 (160.5484) | 309 (157.7028) | 310 (158.3200) | 486 (141.1200) |