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.
Bank Midwest 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 145 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 Bank Midwest has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1708 at their best, 234 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 11 years after Bank Midwest did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Bank Midwest 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.6916 | 145.6916 | 145.69 | top 92% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7028 | 155.9544 | 160.83 | top 54% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.4056 | 142.2512 | 144.83 | top 94% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.0000 | 134.7884 | 143.39 | top 87% |
“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 99% | 64.6% | 64.6% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 80.4% | 80.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 544 / 552 (465.1084) | — | 236 (165.7028) | 513 (147.4056) | 433 (152.0000) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 500 / 535 (578.6856) | 493 (145.6916) | 349 (155.9544) | 509 (142.2512) | 506 (134.7884) |