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.
Lock, Stock and Two Smokin' Barrels 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 122 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 Lock, Stock and Two Smokin' Barrels has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 15 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head22 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Lock, Stock and Two Smokin' Barrels's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 12 years after Lock, Stock and Two Smokin' Barrels did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Lock, Stock and Two Smokin' Barrels on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Lock, Stock and Two Smokin' Barrels's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5600 | 146.2744 | 155.42 | top 77% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2744 | 164.5484 | 169.41 | top 27% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1428 | 160.5256 | 162.83 | top 53% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.7260 | 149.6800 | 149.70 | top 83% |
“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 68% | 88.8% | 88.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 288 / 535 (635.4176) | 489 (146.2744) | 20 (174.2744) | 172 (165.1428) | 400 (149.7260) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 144 / 174 (639.3140) | 108 (164.5600) | 89 (164.5484) | 128 (160.5256) | 160 (149.6800) |