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.
FAT POSSUM 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 FAT POSSUM BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1505 at their best, 30 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-headThey turned up 5 years after FAT POSSUM BBQ did, first appearing in 2018.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with FAT POSSUM 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 | 152.4800 | 142.2400 | 147.36 | top 92% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.4172 | 150.8116 | 151.11 | top 88% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.6572 | 145.6228 | 147.64 | top 96% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 161.1200 | 157.6916 | 159.41 | top 55% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| NE | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| VA | 1 | 0 | top 88% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 88% |
| 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 100% | 83.5% | 83.5% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 88% | 84.7% | 84.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-09-25 | Aksarben Stock Show & Rodeo Omaha, NE | 18 / 18 (601.0060) | 18 (142.2400) | 17 (151.4172) | 17 (149.6572) | 15 (157.6916) |
| 2013-07-26 | Bluemont BBQ Bash & Blackberry Bonanza Bluemont, VA | 29 / 33 (610.0344) | 28 (152.4800) | 27 (150.8116) | 32 (145.6228) | 9 (161.1200) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 ↗ | Master | #2603 (58 pts) | #2618 (58 pts) | #2621 (58 pts) | #2616 (58 pts) | #1609 (143 pts) |