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 Springfield 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 Springfield has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 17 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 11 years after Glazer's Springfield did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Glazer's Springfield 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 | 147.4056 | 142.2628 | 144.83 | top 94% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.9544 | 139.9772 | 143.97 | top 93% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.6056 | 143.4284 | 154.02 | top 71% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.3828 | 134.7772 | 143.08 | 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 96% | 81.9% | 81.9% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 80.9% | 80.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 530 / 552 (589.6000) | 538 (142.2628) | 514 (147.9544) | 261 (164.6056) | 537 (134.7772) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 496 / 535 (582.1940) | 483 (147.4056) | 497 (139.9772) | 503 (143.4284) | 382 (151.3828) |