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.
BIG D AND BRIQUETTES 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 132 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 BIG D AND BRIQUETTES BBQ 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-headThey turned up 7 years after BIG D AND BRIQUETTES BBQ did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BIG D AND BRIQUETTES 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-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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 173.1200 | 171.9998 | 172.56 | top 13% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6572 | 152.0000 | 154.83 | top 74% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.4400 | 150.2856 | 152.86 | top 83% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7372 | 142.2856 | 154.01 | top 63% |
“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 | 100% | top 59% | 90.5% | 90.5% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 68% | 85.6% | 85.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-07-25 | Racing for the BBQ Lee's Summit, MO | 32 / 54 (651.9544) | 9 (173.1200) | 42 (157.6572) | 48 (155.4400) | 20 (165.7372) |
| 2013-04-19 | 5th Annual VFW Post 846 BBQ Challenge (FULL) Overland Park, KS | 50 / 73 (616.5710) | 7 (171.9998) | 51 (152.0000) | 56 (150.2856) | 65 (142.2856) |