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.
beer it's what's for dinner 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 121 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 beer it's what's for dinner has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where beer it's what's for dinner's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with beer it's what's for dinner on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after beer it's what's for dinner did, first appearing in 2018.
⚔ 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 | 159.4056 | 143.9772 | 151.69 | top 83% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.0116 | 159.4172 | 159.71 | top 56% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3828 | 145.7028 | 150.54 | top 82% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6684 | 149.0972 | 151.38 | top 76% |
“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 87% | 85.3% | 85.3% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 77% | 85.1% | 85.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 482 / 552 (614.2172) | 399 (159.4056) | 351 (160.0116) | 521 (145.7028) | 476 (149.0972) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 412 / 535 (612.4456) | 502 (143.9772) | 260 (159.4172) | 373 (155.3828) | 347 (153.6684) |