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.
ATOMIC 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 101 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 ATOMIC 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 turned up 9 years after ATOMIC BBQ did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with ATOMIC 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-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 | 150.8570 | 149.0972 | 149.98 | top 74% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2516 | 157.7140 | 159.98 | top 24% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5028 | 151.4282 | 153.97 | top 50% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9998 | 146.2516 | 151.13 | top 54% |
“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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 57% | 85.3% | 85.3% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 45% | 85.6% | 85.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-04-11 | Delaware's Triple Threat BBQ Festival at the Fair Harrington, DE | 62 / 109 (614.1032) | 86 (149.0972) | 27 (162.2516) | 50 (156.5028) | 78 (146.2516) |
| 2013-05-10 | Green Lane Fire CO's Green Lane, PA | 26 / 58 (615.9990) | 40 (150.8570) | 14 (157.7140) | 31 (151.4282) | 21 (155.9998) |
| 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) | #1744 (130 pts) | #2080 (75 pts) | #1912 (95 pts) |