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.
S O C 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 160 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 S O C has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 8 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head19 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where S O C's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 93 contests, alongside a 23% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 13 years after S O C did, first appearing in 2026.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with S O C 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9772 | 155.9772 | 155.98 | top 68% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.2628 | 146.2628 | 146.26 | top 85% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.6228 | 149.6228 | 149.62 | top 86% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.1316 | 149.1316 | 149.13 | top 78% |
“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 84% | 83.5% | 83.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 450 / 535 (600.9944) | 365 (155.9772) | 456 (146.2628) | 462 (149.6228) | 415 (149.1316) |