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.
First Interstate Bank 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 140 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 First Interstate Bank 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 10 years after First Interstate Bank did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with First Interstate Bank 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've been 1504 at their best, 32 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.7140 | 141.6456 | 147.68 | top 96% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.2856 | 139.3600 | 142.82 | top 97% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.0000 | 156.5484 | 158.27 | top 80% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 131.3944 | 110.8116 | 121.10 | top 100% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Griller's Cup | 2 | 25 | 0 | top 98% | 2014-07-16 |
| 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 96% | 82.1% | 82.1% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 76.2% | 76.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-07-16 | Griller's Cup Laramie, WY | 25 / 26 (591.3940) | 24 (153.7140) | 26 (146.2856) | 21 (160.0000) | 26 (131.3944) |
| 2013-07-19 | Griller's Cup Laramie, WY | 33 / 33 (548.3656) | 33 (141.6456) | 31 (139.3600) | 26 (156.5484) | 33 (110.8116) |