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.
TV 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 141 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 TV Dinner 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-headLevel with TV Dinner 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-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 | 148.5372 | 142.8112 | 145.67 | top 94% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7256 | 133.6112 | 149.67 | top 69% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9656 | 147.9772 | 149.97 | top 87% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.7028 | 143.4172 | 146.56 | top 84% |
“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 91% | 84.1% | 84.1% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 94% | 80.3% | 80.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 500 / 552 (605.6572) | 515 (148.5372) | 229 (165.7256) | 510 (147.9772) | 515 (143.4172) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 501 / 535 (578.0908) | 505 (142.8112) | 515 (133.6112) | 432 (151.9656) | 403 (149.7028) |