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.
WT BUFFS 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 123 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 WT BUFFS 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 WT BUFFS's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 11 years before WT BUFFS's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before WT BUFFS's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with WT BUFFS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2016, 8 years before WT BUFFS'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 | 154.8572 | 154.8572 | 154.86 | top 78% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 171.4056 | 153.6572 | 162.53 | top 57% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8456 | 162.8456 | 162.85 | top 63% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2856 | 162.2856 | 162.29 | top 54% |
“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 68% | 88% | 88% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-16 | Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championships 🏅 Lubbock, TX | 28 / 41 (633.6456) | 32 (154.8572) | 13 (171.4056) | 26 (162.8456) | 22 (162.2856) |