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.
RUB-A-QUE 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 RUB-A-QUE has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 13 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after RUB-A-QUE did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with RUB-A-QUE 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 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1426 | 152.5712 | 154.86 | top 83% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1426 | 136.5144 | 146.83 | top 83% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.3200 | 153.1428 | 153.73 | top 85% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2512 | 138.2856 | 146.27 | top 84% |
“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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 83% | 83% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 84.1% | 84.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-08-22 | Big Island BBQ Albert Lea, MN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-05-16 | Minnesota in May Falcon Heights, MN | 56 / 58 (597.6568) | 49 (152.5712) | 58 (136.5144) | 50 (154.3200) | 43 (154.2512) |
| 2013-05-31 | Smokin' in Steele Owatonna, MN | 47 / 51 (605.7136) | 42 (157.1426) | 34 (157.1426) | 43 (153.1428) | 48 (138.2856) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1970 (75 pts) | #2073 (75 pts) | #2043 (75 pts) | #2080 (75 pts) | #2034 (75 pts) |