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.
FELL FELL 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 132 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 FELL FELL 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 8 years after FELL FELL BBQ did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 9 contests, alongside a 33% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with FELL FELL 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7144 | 159.9428 | 164.83 | top 34% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.1428 | 150.8000 | 151.97 | top 81% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2400 | 152.5712 | 155.41 | top 77% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5372 | 145.1426 | 150.84 | top 72% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 73% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 73% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 73% | 86.9% | 86.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-25 | Bates County BBQ State Championship 🏅 Butler, MO | 24 / 33 (625.5200) | 19 (159.9428) | 28 (150.8000) | 25 (158.2400) | 20 (156.5372) |
| 2013-06-07 | SMOKIN on the Summit Lees Summit, MO | 59 / 81 (620.5710) | 9 (169.7144) | 62 (153.1428) | 64 (152.5712) | 67 (145.1426) |