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.
HOGSHINERS 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 145 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 HOGSHINERS has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 10 years after HOGSHINERS did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with HOGSHINERS 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 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1084 | 141.6228 | 151.37 | top 71% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.4056 | 150.2400 | 154.82 | top 63% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 166.2284 | 149.6572 | 157.94 | top 47% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5028 | 133.5200 | 143.01 | top 83% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 69% | 88.8% | 84.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-23 | Hillbilly Hog BBQ Throwdown & Fall Festival Cleveland, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-06-27 | Hogging Up BBQ Festival Winchester, VA | 21 / 46 (639.2452) | 21 (161.1084) | 23 (159.4056) | 9 (166.2284) | 31 (152.5028) |
| 2014-05-09 | BBQ Jamboree Fredericksburg, VA | 59 / 64 (575.0400) | 62 (141.6228) | 48 (150.2400) | 48 (149.6572) | 63 (133.5200) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 ↗ | Master | #1504 (166 pts) | #1600 (166 pts) | #1624 (156 pts) | #1324 (231 pts) | #1729 (146 pts) |