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.
Trashcan Tricksters has 1 rated contest — 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 142 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 Trashcan Tricksters has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Trashcan Tricksters's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 11 years after Trashcan Tricksters did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Trashcan Tricksters on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Trashcan Tricksters's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Trashcan Tricksters's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 131.9772 | 131.9772 | 131.98 | top 97% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141.2000 | 141.2000 | 141.20 | top 82% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.1540 | 145.1540 | 145.15 | top 71% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.3200 | 154.3200 | 154.32 | top 34% |
“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 89% | 79.5% | 79.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-04-25 | Bynum Schools Best of the Basin BBQ Championship Midland, TX | 55 / 62 (572.6512) | 60 (131.9772) | 51 (141.2000) | 44 (145.1540) | 21 (154.3200) |