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.
CHESTER'S 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team CHESTER'S 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-headLevel with CHESTER'S BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after CHESTER'S BBQ did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ 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 | 149.6572 | 146.2056 | 147.93 | top 92% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.4400 | 147.3944 | 151.42 | top 84% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3944 | 151.9656 | 153.68 | top 83% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7256 | 153.0744 | 155.40 | top 67% |
“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 86% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 89% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Illinois Bragging Rights | 2 | 32 | 0 | top 88% | 2014-10-10 |
| 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 86% | 85.9% | 85.9% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 83.1% | 83.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-10 | Central Illinois Bragging Rights Arthur, IL | 32 / 37 (618.2172) | 36 (149.6572) | 27 (155.4400) | 31 (155.3944) | 25 (157.7256) |
| 2013-10-11 | Central Illinois Bragging Rights Arthur, IL | 47 / 53 (598.6400) | 46 (146.2056) | 50 (147.3944) | 44 (151.9656) | 35 (153.0744) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #1970 (75 pts) | #2073 (75 pts) | #2043 (75 pts) | #2080 (75 pts) | #2034 (75 pts) |