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.
Glazer's St. Louis 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 148 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 Glazer's St. Louis has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1515 at their best, 40 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head17 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Glazer's St. Louis's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 11 years after Glazer's St. Louis did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Glazer's St. Louis 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 | 153.1544 | 150.2628 | 151.71 | top 84% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 138.8344 | 125.6800 | 132.26 | top 98% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1544 | 162.3200 | 163.74 | top 44% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.2400 | 115.9772 | 133.11 | top 91% |
“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 93% | 83.6% | 83.6% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 77.8% | 77.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 512 / 552 (601.6572) | 503 (150.2628) | 543 (138.8344) | 311 (162.3200) | 464 (150.2400) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 520 / 535 (559.9660) | 411 (153.1544) | 527 (125.6800) | 169 (165.1544) | 527 (115.9772) |