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.
APPLE PIE 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 139 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 APPLE PIE 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 8 years after APPLE PIE BBQ did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1504 at their best, 32 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with APPLE PIE 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 | 149.6684 | 146.8344 | 148.25 | top 95% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.1428 | 133.0744 | 139.11 | top 98% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0344 | 142.2400 | 153.14 | top 79% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9660 | 116.3200 | 136.14 | top 84% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 79.5% | 79.5% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 80.7% | 80.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-02 | Smokin In Steele Owatonna, MN | 45 / 46 (572.3316) | 45 (146.8344) | 44 (145.1428) | 27 (164.0344) | 46 (116.3200) |
| 2014-08-08 | Med City BBQ & Musicfest Rochester, MN | 40 / 40 (580.9488) | 37 (149.6684) | 40 (133.0744) | 40 (142.2400) | 27 (155.9660) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #2212 (60 pts) | #2286 (60 pts) | #2304 (60 pts) | #2260 (60 pts) | #2266 (60 pts) |
| 2014 ↗ | Master | #2620 (65 pts) | #2633 (65 pts) | #2644 (65 pts) | #2648 (65 pts) | #2630 (65 pts) |