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.
BBDOT 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 123 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 BBDOT 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-headThey turned up 7 years after BBDOT did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BBDOT 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7600 | 152.5028 | 157.13 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.5828 | 144.5600 | 146.57 | top 90% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1084 | 154.2744 | 157.69 | top 64% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.4172 | 143.8972 | 145.66 | 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 92% | 83.7% | 83.7% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 77% | 84.9% | 84.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 510 / 552 (602.7772) | 485 (152.5028) | 507 (148.5828) | 453 (154.2744) | 495 (147.4172) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 414 / 535 (611.3256) | 245 (161.7600) | 467 (144.5600) | 249 (161.1084) | 466 (143.8972) |