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.
Ideker-Que 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 149 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 Ideker-Que has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head18 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Ideker-Que's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after Ideker-Que did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head4 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Ideker-Que 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 Ideker-Que's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.0628 | 149.0628 | 149.06 | top 93% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.9656 | 147.9656 | 147.97 | top 93% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2628 | 154.2628 | 154.26 | top 82% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.2400 | 150.2400 | 150.24 | 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 93% | 83.5% | 83.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 514 / 552 (601.5312) | 512 (149.0628) | 513 (147.9656) | 454 (154.2628) | 462 (150.2400) |