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.
BUTT SMOKIN 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team BUTT SMOKIN BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 10 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-headLevel with BUTT SMOKIN BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after BUTT SMOKIN BBQ 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 | 155.9884 | 153.7140 | 154.85 | top 83% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.0000 | 149.7256 | 150.86 | top 90% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.0344 | 153.1428 | 156.59 | top 77% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.0002 | 156.0000 | 156.00 | top 72% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 89% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 85% |
| 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 89% | 86.4% | 86.4% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 85.4% | 85.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-08-01 | Rossville Tall Corn BBQ Contest Rossville, KS | 33 / 37 (621.7484) | 32 (155.9884) | 35 (149.7256) | 25 (160.0344) | 25 (156.0000) |
| 2013-04-12 | Smoke In The Spring Osage City, KS | 60 / 71 (614.8570) | 57 (153.7140) | 61 (152.0000) | 61 (153.1428) | 54 (156.0002) |