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.
TWO COUSINS BBQ 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 146 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 TWO COUSINS BBQ 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-headLevel with TWO COUSINS BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after TWO COUSINS BBQ did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5716 | 155.4172 | 157.99 | top 74% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7028 | 143.9998 | 154.85 | top 65% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9884 | 148.0000 | 149.99 | top 90% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.0000 | 145.7488 | 146.87 | top 91% |
“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 86% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 88% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 87% | 86% | 84.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-07-26 | Up in Smoke BBQ Bash Mason City, IA | 58 / 66 (618.8572) | 58 (155.4172) | 27 (165.7028) | 64 (151.9884) | 63 (145.7488) |
| 2013-06-14 | State Center Rose Festival BBQ Championship State Center, IA | 24 / 28 (600.5714) | 17 (160.5716) | 25 (143.9998) | 23 (148.0000) | 24 (148.0000) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1647 (133 pts) | #1467 (168 pts) | #1765 (128 pts) | #1706 (138 pts) | #1680 (133 pts) |