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.
PLUNGIN' AND RUBBIN' BBQ 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 125 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 PLUNGIN' AND RUBBIN' BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1543 at their best, 49 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where PLUNGIN' AND RUBBIN' BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2017, 6 years before PLUNGIN' AND RUBBIN' BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before PLUNGIN' AND RUBBIN' BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with PLUNGIN' AND RUBBIN' BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9428 | 159.9428 | 159.94 | top 82% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3828 | 159.3828 | 159.38 | top 82% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5484 | 160.5484 | 160.55 | top 76% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3828 | 163.3828 | 163.38 | top 66% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 80% | 89.3% | 89.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-27 | American Royal World Series of Barbecue - Open Contest 🏅 Kansas City, KS | 390 / 487 (643.2568) | 401 (159.9428) | 397 (159.3828) | 372 (160.5484) | 321 (163.3828) |