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.
3 STAR BBQ TEAM 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 109 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 3 STAR BBQ TEAM 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 3 STAR BBQ TEAM on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2013.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where 3 STAR BBQ TEAM's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where 3 STAR BBQ TEAM's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 177.1428 | 169.7256 | 173.43 | top 18% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 155.4516 | 162.86 | top 52% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 153.1200 | 162.84 | top 57% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2400 | 154.7888 | 156.51 | 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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 58% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 36% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 58% | 91% | 91% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 36% | 91.1% | 91.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-26 | Franklin BBQ Festival Presented By Franklin Noon Rotary Club Franklin, TN | 18 / 31 (655.3144) | 4 (177.1428) | 11 (170.2628) | 31 (153.1200) | 25 (154.7888) |
| 2013-08-23 | Music City Festival & BBQ Championship Nashville, TN | 20 / 55 (655.9772) | 13 (169.7256) | 38 (155.4516) | 8 (172.5600) | 28 (158.2400) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 ↗ | Master | #2081 (91 pts) | #1422 (206 pts) | #1849 (126 pts) | #2908 (56 pts) | #2904 (56 pts) |
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1838 (100 pts) | #1694 (135 pts) | #2043 (75 pts) | #1462 (170 pts) | #2034 (75 pts) |