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.
CATTLE CREEK 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 114 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 CATTLE CREEK 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-headLevel with CATTLE CREEK 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-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where CATTLE CREEK BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6800 | 157.7140 | 161.70 | top 47% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.7140 | 150.2744 | 151.99 | top 75% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4286 | 153.1088 | 160.27 | top 47% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4172 | 159.4284 | 165.42 | top 23% |
“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 46% | 89% | 88.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 247 / 535 (640.4804) | 168 (165.6800) | 427 (150.2744) | 410 (153.1088) | 38 (171.4172) |
| 2013-03-15 | NKC MO State BBQ Championship N. Kansas City, MO | 36 / 79 (638.2850) | 50 (157.7140) | 56 (153.7140) | 14 (167.4286) | 31 (159.4284) |