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.
Tom's Hornets BBQ 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 157 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 Tom's Hornets BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Tom's Hornets BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ 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-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 19 contests, alongside a 11% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Tom's Hornets BBQ 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 | 139.3484 | 139.3484 | 139.35 | top 97% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.8460 | 150.8460 | 150.85 | top 78% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9428 | 155.9428 | 155.94 | top 68% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.8344 | 150.8344 | 150.83 | top 72% |
“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 86% | 82.9% | 82.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 461 / 535 (596.9716) | 517 (139.3484) | 419 (150.8460) | 366 (155.9428) | 387 (150.8344) |