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.
Lickins 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 149 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 Lickins BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 10 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Lickins BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Lickins BBQ did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9998 | 151.3828 | 151.69 | top 80% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 144.5716 | 138.7772 | 141.67 | top 91% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6912 | 150.2856 | 153.99 | top 70% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1544 | 138.2854 | 147.72 | top 71% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| MO | 1 | 0 | top 83% |
| IL | 1 | 0 | top 88% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 88% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 83% |
| 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 85% | 84% | 82.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 442 / 535 (605.0056) | 441 (151.3828) | 504 (138.7772) | 328 (157.6912) | 279 (157.1544) |
| 2013-06-21 | Knights of Columbus Quincy, IL | 28 / 32 (585.1424) | 25 (151.9998) | 28 (144.5716) | 25 (150.2856) | 29 (138.2854) |