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.
Sugars Championship Barbecue 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 110 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 Sugars Championship Barbecue 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 Sugars Championship Barbecue's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head17 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 6% top-10 finishes rather than wins.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Sugars Championship Barbecue 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 | 172.0000 | 169.1200 | 170.56 | top 17% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2628 | 157.6572 | 157.96 | top 68% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1200 | 159.3484 | 162.23 | top 53% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5600 | 156.5372 | 158.55 | top 62% |
“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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 53% | 90.5% | 90.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 209 / 535 (646.6856) | 92 (169.1200) | 314 (157.6572) | 298 (159.3484) | 224 (160.5600) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 116 / 174 (651.9200) | 30 (172.0000) | 134 (158.2628) | 87 (165.1200) | 143 (156.5372) |