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.
Outlaw Ray's Barbque 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 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Outlaw Ray's Barbque 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 6 years after Outlaw Ray's Barbque did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Outlaw Ray's Barbque 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 | 157.7144 | 153.7028 | 155.71 | top 66% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.8800 | 154.8228 | 160.85 | top 39% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.0740 | 122.2284 | 139.65 | top 76% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8688 | 157.1088 | 159.99 | top 41% |
“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 | 50% | top 65% | 88.2% | 85.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 458 / 535 (597.6344) | 338 (157.7144) | 360 (154.8228) | 529 (122.2284) | 175 (162.8688) |
| 2013-08-31 | City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival Bedford, TX | 40 / 89 (634.7656) | 61 (153.7028) | 10 (166.8800) | 48 (157.0740) | 44 (157.1088) |