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.
Bourbon Cowboy Cookers 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 111 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.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2017, 6 years before Bourbon Cowboy Cookers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Bourbon Cowboy Cookers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 5 years before Bourbon Cowboy Cookers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2013, 10 years before Bourbon Cowboy Cookers's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after Bourbon Cowboy Cookers did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8456 | 155.4284 | 161.14 | top 48% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3944 | 160.5600 | 161.98 | top 55% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5484 | 163.9884 | 166.27 | top 40% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.9884 | 159.9884 | 163.99 | top 40% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 38% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 56% |
| 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 56% | 91.5% | 91.5% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 38% | 90% | 90% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-08 | Navy SEAL Danny Dietz Memorial Classic Cookoff 🏅 Waller, TX | 55 / 99 (658.7768) | 46 (166.8456) | 67 (163.3944) | 44 (168.5484) | 65 (159.9884) |
| 2014-02-27 | Shotgun Fred BBQ Showdown Huntsville, TX | 14 / 37 (647.9652) | 18 (155.4284) | 16 (160.5600) | 13 (163.9884) | 5 (167.9884) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 ↗ | Master | #1857 (117 pts) | #2054 (97 pts) | #1991 (107 pts) | #1925 (122 pts) | #1481 (187 pts) |