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.
Close Quarters 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 114 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 Close Quarters BBQ 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 Close Quarters BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Close Quarters BBQ 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 Close Quarters BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Close Quarters BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2972 | 162.2972 | 162.30 | top 42% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.3544 | 174.3544 | 174.35 | top 3% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8916 | 158.8916 | 158.89 | top 58% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.2856 | 150.2856 | 150.29 | top 71% |
“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 | 100% | top 39% | 89.7% | 89.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-09-27 | Shawnee Great Grillers State Championship 🏅 Shawnee, KS | 44 / 114 (645.8288) | 48 (162.2972) | 3 (174.3544) | 66 (158.8916) | 81 (150.2856) |