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.
CREATIVE PLANNING/SMOKIN' BUNZ 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 149 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 CREATIVE PLANNING/SMOKIN' BUNZ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1522 at their best, 33 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head57 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where CREATIVE PLANNING/SMOKIN' BUNZ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with CREATIVE PLANNING/SMOKIN' BUNZ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 9 years before CREATIVE PLANNING/SMOKIN' BUNZ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where CREATIVE PLANNING/SMOKIN' BUNZ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4288 | 167.4172 | 167.42 | top 52% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 154.2400 | 160.24 | top 75% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.0972 | 160.5028 | 162.80 | top 71% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2400 | 144.5028 | 153.37 | top 80% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest | 2 | 389 | 0 | top 79% | 2023-09-27 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 80% | 89.3% | 89.3% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 78% | 89.5% | 89.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 389 / 487 (643.2572) | 271 (167.4172) | 291 (166.2400) | 308 (165.0972) | 466 (144.5028) |
| 2022-09-29 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - OPEN CONTEST 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 393 / 505 (644.4116) | 248 (167.4288) | 459 (154.2400) | 394 (160.5028) | 320 (162.2400) |