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.
LA's BBQ 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 146 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 LA's BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head9 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where LA's BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head18 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 6% top-10 finishes rather than wins.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after LA's BBQ did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head4 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with LA's BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.9144 | 158.9144 | 158.91 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.7372 | 149.7372 | 149.74 | top 89% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.7256 | 149.7256 | 149.73 | top 90% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141.0856 | 141.0856 | 141.09 | top 95% |
“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 94% | 83.3% | 83.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 517 / 552 (599.4628) | 404 (158.9144) | 494 (149.7372) | 496 (149.7256) | 525 (141.0856) |