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.
BUTT UGLY 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 147 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 BUTT UGLY 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 10 years after BUTT UGLY BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BUTT UGLY 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 | 166.2854 | 160.5372 | 163.41 | top 64% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6344 | 153.1428 | 153.39 | top 88% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5256 | 164.0000 | 164.26 | top 60% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 152.0000 | 159.12 | top 68% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High on the Hog Festival | 2 | 43 | 0 | top 77% | 2014-04-18 |
| 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 82% | 89.6% | 89.6% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 72% | 88.3% | 88.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-04-18 | High on the Hog Festival Winchester, TN | 51 / 62 (644.9372) | 51 (160.5372) | 56 (153.6344) | 45 (164.5256) | 34 (166.2400) |
| 2013-04-19 | High on the Hog Festival Winchester, TN | 43 / 60 (635.4282) | 27 (166.2854) | 51 (153.1428) | 29 (164.0000) | 49 (152.0000) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 ↗ | Master | #2084 (75 pts) | #2167 (75 pts) | #2161 (75 pts) | #2172 (75 pts) | #2148 (75 pts) |