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.
TAKE-A-WHILE 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 148 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team TAKE-A-WHILE has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1532 at their best, 57 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with TAKE-A-WHILE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after TAKE-A-WHILE did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ 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 | 156.6056 | 143.9084 | 150.26 | top 91% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.2628 | 142.7544 | 146.51 | top 95% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.0856 | 147.3712 | 152.23 | top 97% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.3828 | 139.3832 | 145.38 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| * Hog Happnin' | 2 | 59 | 0 | top 97% | 2015-11-06 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 81% | 81% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 84.1% | 84.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-11-06 | * Hog Happnin' Shelby, NC | 59 / 60 (583.1316) | 60 (143.9084) | 58 (142.7544) | 56 (157.0856) | 60 (139.3832) |
| 2013-11-01 | Hog Happnin' Shelby, NC | 72 / 75 (605.6224) | 62 (156.6056) | 70 (150.2628) | 75 (147.3712) | 63 (151.3828) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 ↗ | Master | #2158 (60 pts) | #2209 (60 pts) | #2209 (60 pts) | #2225 (60 pts) | #2214 (60 pts) |
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1970 (75 pts) | #2073 (75 pts) | #2043 (75 pts) | #2080 (75 pts) | #2034 (75 pts) |