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.
ALBERT'S ASH KICKIN 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 120 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 ALBERT'S ASH KICKIN 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 6 years after ALBERT'S ASH KICKIN BBQ did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with ALBERT'S ASH KICKIN 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2856 | 153.1430 | 157.71 | top 64% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8572 | 162.8456 | 166.85 | top 32% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8572 | 164.5256 | 165.69 | top 33% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 161.7142 | 164.85 | top 37% |
“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 33% | 91.3% | 91.3% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 54% | 90.6% | 90.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-06 | McLouth BBQ Blowout 23rd Annual McLouth, KS | 12 / 36 (657.6340) | 15 (162.2856) | 16 (162.8456) | 12 (164.5256) | 7 (167.9772) |
| 2013-05-31 | McLouth BBQ Blowout 22nd Annual McLouth, KS | 20 / 37 (652.5716) | 32 (153.1430) | 7 (170.8572) | 12 (166.8572) | 20 (161.7142) |