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.
Pancho, Sisco, The Kid and Company 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 143 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.
7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Pancho, Sisco, The Kid and Company's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Pancho, Sisco, The Kid and Company on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Pancho, Sisco, The Kid and Company's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 8 years before Pancho, Sisco, The Kid and Company's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2017, 9 years before Pancho, Sisco, The Kid and Company'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 | 161.6684 | 152.5144 | 157.09 | top 87% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3944 | 148.5028 | 151.95 | top 96% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9656 | 141.7144 | 154.84 | top 86% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.5144 | 145.0972 | 146.81 | top 92% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBQ & Fly-In on the River | 2 | 53 | 0 | top 95% | 2026-08-14 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 85.3% | 85.3% |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 84.3% | 84.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-14 | BBQ & Fly-In on the River 🏅 Excelsior Springs, MO | 81 / 83 (614.0800) | 81 (152.5144) | 82 (148.5028) | 59 (167.9656) | 80 (145.0972) |
| 2023-08-18 | BBQ & Fly-In on the River 🏅 Excelsior Springs, MO | 53 / 57 (607.2916) | 44 (161.6684) | 53 (155.3944) | 57 (141.7144) | 50 (148.5144) |