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.
Byrd and His Flock Barbeque has 1 rated contest — 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 111 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 Byrd and His Flock Barbeque has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 13 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Byrd and His Flock Barbeque's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Byrd and His Flock Barbeque on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 10 years after Byrd and His Flock Barbeque did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Byrd and His Flock Barbeque's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2744 | 166.2744 | 166.27 | top 23% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1200 | 157.1200 | 157.12 | top 57% |
| Pork | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.8572 | 174.8572 | 174.86 | top 1% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7144 | 157.7144 | 157.71 | top 38% |
“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 15% | 91.1% | 91.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-27 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 28 / 184 (655.9660) | 42 (166.2744) | 104 (157.1200) | 2 (174.8572) | 69 (157.7144) |