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.
Fat Cat Bar -B - Que LSMO has 1 rated contest — 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 142 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 Fat Cat Bar -B - Que LSMO has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Fat Cat Bar -B - Que LSMO's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Fat Cat Bar -B - Que LSMO did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Fat Cat Bar -B - Que LSMO on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Fat Cat Bar -B - Que LSMO's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Fat Cat Bar -B - Que LSMO's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1888 | 161.1888 | 161.19 | top 66% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.6916 | 149.6916 | 149.69 | top 90% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4056 | 163.4056 | 163.41 | top 52% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.0228 | 148.0228 | 148.02 | top 88% |
“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 83% | 86.4% | 86.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 459 / 552 (622.3088) | 363 (161.1888) | 498 (149.6916) | 287 (163.4056) | 486 (148.0228) |