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.
Downtown Dishes It Up 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 148 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 Downtown Dishes It Up has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Downtown Dishes It Up's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1533 at their best, 48 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after Downtown Dishes It Up did, first appearing in 2018.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Downtown Dishes It Up 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 | 161.1084 | 140.0000 | 150.55 | top 72% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2744 | 152.0000 | 153.14 | top 69% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.4286 | 147.9884 | 151.71 | top 83% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2856 | 153.1430 | 153.71 | top 58% |
“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 | 0% | top 70% | 85.8% | 85.8% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 81% | 83.4% | 83.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-09 | Rock'n Ribs BBQ Festival Springfield, MO | 40 / 57 (617.6568) | 30 (161.1084) | 35 (154.2744) | 51 (147.9884) | 33 (154.2856) |
| 2013-04-19 | Rock'n Ribs BBQ Festival Springfield, MO | 55 / 68 (600.5716) | 62 (140.0000) | 52 (152.0000) | 52 (155.4286) | 39 (153.1430) |