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.
Factory Direct / Steinman Catering 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 149 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 Factory Direct / Steinman Catering 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 Factory Direct / Steinman Catering's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 12 years after Factory Direct / Steinman Catering did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Factory Direct / Steinman Catering on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Factory Direct / Steinman Catering's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Factory Direct / Steinman Catering's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1656 | 161.1656 | 161.17 | top 49% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 131.9544 | 131.9544 | 131.95 | top 97% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7028 | 157.7028 | 157.70 | top 61% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 137.0516 | 137.0516 | 137.05 | top 93% |
“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 90% | 81.6% | 81.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 483 / 535 (587.8744) | 263 (161.1656) | 520 (131.9544) | 326 (157.7028) | 500 (137.0516) |