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.
Plain Lazy 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 141 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 Plain Lazy BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Plain Lazy BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after Plain Lazy BBQ did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Plain Lazy 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.4056 | 151.4056 | 151.41 | top 84% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4288 | 160.0000 | 163.71 | top 29% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8574 | 156.5484 | 163.70 | top 31% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 144.5714 | 142.7656 | 143.67 | top 84% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship | 2 | 119 | 0 | top 82% | 2014-06-27 |
| 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 65% | 85.9% | 85.9% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 66% | 66% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-27 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 119 / 184 (618.1484) | 154 (151.4056) | 29 (167.4288) | 100 (156.5484) | 158 (142.7656) |
| 2013-06-21 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 183 / 183 (475.4288) | — | 78 (160.0000) | 15 (170.8574) | 151 (144.5714) |