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.
Bent Rail 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 150 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Bent Rail 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-headLevel with Bent Rail BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2014, 5 years before Bent Rail BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before Bent Rail BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2021, 3 years before Bent Rail 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 | 158.8572 | 148.5144 | 153.69 | top 84% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5716 | 133.6456 | 145.11 | top 88% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 148.5256 | 155.97 | top 88% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.3372 | 127.3716 | 137.35 | top 96% |
“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 97% | 82.3% | 82.3% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 95% | 82.1% | 82.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-15 | 6th Annual Qlathe BBQ Championship 🏅 Olathe, KS | 56 / 58 (592.9144) | 56 (148.5144) | 58 (133.6456) | 47 (163.4172) | 54 (147.3372) |
| 2019-03-15 | Qlathe BBQ Championship 🏅 Olathe, KS | 61 / 64 (591.3260) | 46 (158.8572) | 48 (156.5716) | 61 (148.5256) | 63 (127.3716) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 ↗ | Master | #1182 (60 pts) | #1242 (60 pts) | #1317 (60 pts) | #1231 (60 pts) | #1204 (60 pts) |