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.
Chop Chop BBQ has 3 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 107 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 Chop Chop 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 3.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Chop Chop BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4286 | 163.9312 | 166.45 | top 35% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4286 | 157.1200 | 163.03 | top 49% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4056 | 162.8456 | 167.04 | top 37% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5600 | 151.4288 | 156.95 | top 69% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| KS | 2 | 0 | top 46% |
| MO | 1 | 0 | top 52% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 46% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 52% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +2.9 | Valley Center Spring Fling | 2013-05-31 |
| +1.6 | National Bar-B-Que Derby | 2013-09-06 |
| +0.1 | Platte City BBQ Cook-Off | 2014-05-16 |
| 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 52% | 90.5% | 90.5% |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 46% | 91.8% | 90.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-16 | Platte City BBQ Cook-Off Platte City, MO | 26 / 50 (651.3252) | 24 (163.9312) | 37 (157.1200) | 12 (171.4056) | 31 (158.8684) |
| 2013-09-06 | National Bar-B-Que Derby Derby, KS | 17 / 35 (647.9540) | 14 (164.0000) | 20 (160.5484) | 17 (162.8456) | 19 (160.5600) |
| 2013-05-31 | Valley Center Spring Fling Valley Center, KS | 15 / 34 (661.1430) | 6 (171.4286) | 5 (171.4286) | 13 (166.8570) | 31 (151.4288) |