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.
Proud Papas 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 129 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 Proud Papas 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 Proud Papas BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Proud Papas BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 7 years before Proud Papas BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2015, 9 years before Proud Papas BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 7 years before Proud Papas BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8344 | 162.8344 | 162.83 | top 83% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9544 | 159.9544 | 159.95 | top 83% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2284 | 162.2284 | 162.23 | top 86% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7144 | 165.7144 | 165.71 | top 69% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 90.4% | 90.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-06 | Veterans of Foreign Wars Colorado KCBS Pitmaster BBQ Contest 🏅 Castle Rock, CO | 30 / 36 (650.7316) | 30 (162.8344) | 30 (159.9544) | 31 (162.2284) | 25 (165.7144) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1182 (60 pts) | #1242 (60 pts) | #1317 (60 pts) | #1231 (60 pts) | #1204 (60 pts) |