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.
RockYourBelly 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 112 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 RockYourBelly 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-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with RockYourBelly 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 | 156.0000 | 152.5828 | 154.29 | top 84% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 177.7372 | 157.1200 | 167.43 | top 42% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7028 | 152.5484 | 159.13 | top 56% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7144 | 158.2628 | 161.99 | top 47% |
“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 67% | 88.5% | 88.5% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 38% | 90.1% | 90.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-09 | Sertoma 48 BBQ Lawrence, KS | 36 / 54 (637.0856) | 45 (156.0000) | 45 (157.1200) | 18 (165.7028) | 33 (158.2628) |
| 2013-08-23 | East Central State BBQ Cook-Off Paola Roots Festival Paola, KS | 26 / 68 (648.5828) | 58 (152.5828) | 1 (177.7372) | 53 (152.5484) | 22 (165.7144) |