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.
Armed Forces Bank & Academy Bank Midwest 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 145 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Armed Forces Bank & Academy Bank Midwest's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 10 years after Armed Forces Bank & Academy Bank Midwest did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Armed Forces Bank & Academy Bank Midwest 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 Armed Forces Bank & Academy Bank Midwest's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Armed Forces Bank & Academy Bank Midwest's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Armed Forces Bank & Academy Bank Midwest's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2856 | 162.2856 | 162.29 | top 44% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.9144 | 146.9144 | 146.91 | top 84% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141.6916 | 141.6916 | 141.69 | top 96% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8232 | 154.8232 | 154.82 | top 60% |
“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 82% | 84.1% | 84.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 440 / 535 (605.7148) | 236 (162.2856) | 449 (146.9144) | 511 (141.6916) | 320 (154.8232) |