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.
Disciples of the Eternal Flame 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 130 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 Disciples of the Eternal Flame 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 Disciples of the Eternal Flame's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after Disciples of the Eternal Flame did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Disciples of the Eternal Flame on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Disciples of the Eternal Flame's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Disciples of the Eternal Flame's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.0000 | 148.0000 | 148.00 | top 89% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.0000 | 172.0000 | 172.00 | top 7% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8456 | 158.8456 | 158.85 | top 56% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 136.5372 | 136.5372 | 136.54 | top 94% |
“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 76% | 85.5% | 85.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 404 / 535 (615.3828) | 477 (148.0000) | 36 (172.0000) | 300 (158.8456) | 502 (136.5372) |