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.
Engineers and Steers 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 103 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 Engineers and Steers 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 Engineers and Steers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Engineers and Steers did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Engineers and Steers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Engineers and Steers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Engineers and Steers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1084 | 169.1084 | 169.11 | top 18% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2744 | 158.2744 | 158.27 | top 55% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1656 | 165.1656 | 165.17 | top 31% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3828 | 167.3828 | 167.38 | top 18% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 19% | 91.7% | 91.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 100 / 535 (659.9312) | 98 (169.1084) | 293 (158.2744) | 168 (165.1656) | 95 (167.3828) |