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.
Po'Meskin Cookers 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 118 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 Po'Meskin Cookers 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 Po'Meskin Cookers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 11 contests, alongside a 18% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1531 at their best, 35 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Po'Meskin Cookers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5600 | 150.2172 | 155.39 | top 85% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1084 | 151.3600 | 160.23 | top 53% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 161.6800 | 164.54 | top 45% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.3316 | 157.6572 | 163.99 | top 38% |
“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 58% | 91.9% | 89.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 351 / 535 (626.6288) | 457 (150.2172) | 417 (151.3600) | 119 (167.3944) | 277 (157.6572) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 88 / 174 (661.6800) | 146 (160.5600) | 50 (169.1084) | 118 (161.6800) | 42 (170.3316) |