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.
QueTangClan 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 143 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 QueTangClan has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head12 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where QueTangClan's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 17 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2016, 7 years before QueTangClan's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with QueTangClan 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2628 | 147.9428 | 151.10 | top 88% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2972 | 161.6684 | 161.98 | top 56% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.0972 | 159.4172 | 160.26 | top 68% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2628 | 151.3828 | 152.82 | top 77% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship | 2 | 129 | 0 | top 78% | 2024-06-21 |
| 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 75% | 87.3% | 87.3% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 81% | 86.7% | 86.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-21 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 129 / 172 (628.4112) | 145 (154.2628) | 98 (161.6684) | 106 (161.0972) | 139 (151.3828) |
| 2023-06-23 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 135 / 167 (623.9200) | 152 (147.9428) | 91 (162.2972) | 125 (159.4172) | 122 (154.2628) |