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.
Frontier Restoration BBQ 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 144 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 Frontier Restoration BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head12 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Frontier Restoration BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1552 at their best, 62 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 13 years after Frontier Restoration BBQ did, first appearing in 2026.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Frontier Restoration BBQ 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 | 171.4172 | 165.6912 | 168.55 | top 22% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.7772 | 145.6572 | 150.22 | top 81% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4284 | 148.5600 | 155.99 | top 65% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1320 | 149.6800 | 153.41 | top 65% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship | 2 | 56 | 0 | top 66% | 2014-09-26 |
| 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 82% | 85.5% | 85.5% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 49% | 89% | 89% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-09-26 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 92 / 112 (615.3144) | 16 (171.4172) | 102 (145.6572) | 101 (148.5600) | 87 (149.6800) |
| 2013-09-27 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 56 / 114 (641.0288) | 35 (165.6912) | 80 (154.7772) | 46 (163.4284) | 59 (157.1320) |