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.
WB Bar BQ 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 117 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 WB Bar BQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1531 at their best, 35 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 11 years after WB Bar BQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with WB Bar BQ 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4056 | 161.1426 | 162.27 | top 41% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4284 | 153.1428 | 158.29 | top 49% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5714 | 135.3712 | 147.97 | top 70% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7144 | 153.6684 | 155.69 | top 51% |
“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 | 51 | 0 | top 56% | 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 84% | 84.1% | 84.1% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 28% | 89.3% | 89.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-27 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 154 / 184 (605.5880) | 73 (163.4056) | 124 (153.1428) | 180 (135.3712) | 100 (153.6684) |
| 2013-06-21 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 51 / 183 (642.8568) | 77 (161.1426) | 55 (163.4284) | 79 (160.5714) | 88 (157.7144) |