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.
Fat Cat's BBQ LSMO 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 148 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 Fat Cat's BBQ LSMO has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Fat Cat's BBQ LSMO's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 12 years after Fat Cat's BBQ LSMO did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Fat Cat's BBQ LSMO on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Fat Cat's BBQ LSMO's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Fat Cat's BBQ LSMO's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.4168 | 151.4168 | 151.42 | top 82% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.9772 | 143.9772 | 143.98 | top 89% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 135.9772 | 135.9772 | 135.98 | top 98% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7484 | 157.7484 | 157.75 | top 51% |
“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 89% | 81.8% | 81.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 477 / 535 (589.1196) | 438 (151.4168) | 474 (143.9772) | 522 (135.9772) | 271 (157.7484) |