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.
CRIMSON BUTTS 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 143 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 CRIMSON BUTTS has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with CRIMSON BUTTS 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-headThey turned up 5 years after CRIMSON BUTTS did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ 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 | 160.5256 | 156.5712 | 158.55 | top 74% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6800 | 147.4172 | 152.55 | top 78% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2512 | 132.5028 | 145.38 | top 83% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7028 | 156.5144 | 157.11 | top 60% |
“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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 79% | 86.7% | 85.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-08-30 | Smokin' Brew BBQ Parker, CO | 36 / 48 (623.8968) | 34 (160.5256) | 45 (147.4172) | 32 (158.2512) | 30 (157.7028) |
| 2014-06-13 | 21st Colorado BBQ Challenge Frisco, CO | 46 / 55 (603.2684) | 42 (156.5712) | 34 (157.6800) | 55 (132.5028) | 32 (156.5144) |