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.
Losing Effort BBQ 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 141 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 Losing Effort BBQ 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 12 years after Losing Effort BBQ did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Losing Effort BBQ 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 | 165.7144 | 154.2856 | 160.00 | top 49% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2858 | 153.6572 | 155.97 | top 65% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5944 | 145.7142 | 153.15 | top 68% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.2116 | 151.9998 | 152.61 | top 75% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 55% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 86% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 70% | 86.4% | 86.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-08-23 | Smokin' on Oak Bonner Springs, KS | 21 / 38 (621.7488) | 27 (154.2856) | 21 (153.6572) | 14 (160.5944) | 25 (153.2116) |
| 2013-06-07 | Tonganoxie Days BBQ Blowout Tonganoxie, KS | 42 / 49 (621.7142) | 13 (165.7144) | 37 (158.2858) | 49 (145.7142) | 41 (151.9998) |