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.
BBQ Buccaneers 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 162 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 BBQ Buccaneers has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 21 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where BBQ Buccaneers's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2017, 7 years before BBQ Buccaneers's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BBQ Buccaneers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 5 years before BBQ Buccaneers'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 | 155.9312 | 155.9312 | 155.93 | top 79% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2628 | 158.2628 | 158.26 | top 66% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5256 | 152.5256 | 152.53 | top 92% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.3712 | 151.3712 | 151.37 | top 81% |
“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 84% | 85.8% | 85.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-21 | The Great Lenexa BBQ Battle - Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 145 / 172 (618.0908) | 136 (155.9312) | 114 (158.2628) | 158 (152.5256) | 140 (151.3712) |