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.
JUST LAY DOWN 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 JUST LAY DOWN 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-headThey've been 1509 at their best, 36 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after JUST LAY DOWN BBQ did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with JUST LAY DOWN BBQ 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 144.5028 | 143.8740 | 144.19 | top 93% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.4176 | 137.0628 | 140.24 | top 92% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.7140 | 142.8000 | 144.26 | top 92% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.0628 | 133.6572 | 139.36 | top 86% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keystone Classic Barbeque | 2 | 49 | 0 | top 95% | 2014-10-03 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 77.8% | 77.8% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 80% | 80% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-03 | Keystone Classic Barbeque Harrisburg, PA | 53 / 53 (560.3080) | 50 (143.8740) | 52 (137.0628) | 46 (145.7140) | 53 (133.6572) |
| 2013-10-04 | Keystone Classic Barbeque Harrisburg, PA | 49 / 55 (575.7832) | 50 (144.5028) | 47 (143.4176) | 53 (142.8000) | 40 (145.0628) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 ↗ | Master | #2084 (75 pts) | #2167 (75 pts) | #2161 (75 pts) | #2172 (75 pts) | #2148 (75 pts) |
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1970 (75 pts) | #2073 (75 pts) | #2043 (75 pts) | #2080 (75 pts) | #2034 (75 pts) |