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.
Lords of the Grill 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 154 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 Lords of the Grill has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 10 years after Lords of the Grill did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Lords of the Grill on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ 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 | 165.1200 | 162.2628 | 163.69 | top 54% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3828 | 137.6916 | 148.54 | top 83% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.0972 | 144.4912 | 148.79 | top 93% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9884 | 150.2400 | 153.11 | top 74% |
“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 89% | 86.8% | 85.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 445 / 535 (603.2912) | 180 (165.1200) | 507 (137.6916) | 497 (144.4912) | 300 (155.9884) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 164 / 174 (624.9828) | 131 (162.2628) | 125 (159.3828) | 162 (153.0972) | 159 (150.2400) |