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.
Ad Astra 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 119 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 Ad Astra 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-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before Ad Astra BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Ad Astra 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 2018, 6 years before Ad Astra 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7028 | 161.6456 | 161.67 | top 74% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 161.6800 | 164.54 | top 49% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2744 | 157.1772 | 161.73 | top 61% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5484 | 162.8572 | 163.70 | top 48% |
“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 72% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 39% |
| 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 39% | 91.4% | 91.4% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 72% | 89.6% | 89.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-21 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 67 / 172 (658.1716) | 97 (161.6456) | 58 (167.3944) | 60 (166.2744) | 76 (162.8572) |
| 2013-10-18 | Balloons Blues Bikes & BBQ Parsons, KS | 18 / 25 (645.1084) | 23 (161.7028) | 16 (161.6800) | 22 (157.1772) | 13 (164.5484) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1921 (85 pts) | #2588 (60 pts) | #1936 (95 pts) | #2536 (65 pts) | #1833 (110 pts) |