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.
PRISON PIGS 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 142 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 PRISON PIGS 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-headThey turned up 9 years after PRISON PIGS did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with PRISON PIGS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174.2628 | 166.8572 | 170.56 | top 22% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.7260 | 141.6688 | 147.70 | top 90% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4056 | 161.6800 | 164.54 | top 47% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8228 | 151.3944 | 157.11 | top 64% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| WI | 1 | 0 | top 70% |
| IA | 1 | 0 | top 64% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 70% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 64% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 67% | 89.6% | 88.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-08-30 | 3rd Annual Smokin' In The Bogs Warrens, WI | 26 / 37 (634.7316) | 2 (174.2628) | 35 (141.6688) | 12 (167.4056) | 30 (151.3944) |
| 2013-07-26 | Up in Smoke BBQ Bash Mason City, IA | 42 / 66 (645.0860) | 26 (166.8572) | 57 (153.7260) | 40 (161.6800) | 31 (162.8228) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1615 (137 pts) | #947 (337 pts) | #1696 (137 pts) | #1323 (202 pts) | #1651 (137 pts) |