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.
BOUCHARD'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 134 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 BOUCHARD'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-headThey turned up 7 years after BOUCHARD'S BBQ did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BOUCHARD'S 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.2400 | 146.2400 | 146.24 | top 97% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.0000 | 135.9660 | 147.98 | top 83% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2972 | 102.5716 | 134.43 | top 81% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 142.8344 | 128.4916 | 135.66 | top 99% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 54.3% | 54.3% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 82.1% | 82.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-05 | Holy Smokes BBQ Competition Cincinnati, OH | 23 / 23 (391.0632) | — | 15 (160.0000) | 23 (102.5716) | 23 (128.4916) |
| 2014-09-05 | Bands & BBQ at the Point Carrollton, KY | 35 / 36 (591.3376) | 35 (146.2400) | 36 (135.9660) | 22 (166.2972) | 35 (142.8344) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 ↗ | Master | #2866 (58 pts) | — | #2157 (98 pts) | #2885 (58 pts) | #2883 (58 pts) |
| 2014 ↗ | Master | #2689 (61 pts) | #2703 (61 pts) | #2708 (61 pts) | #2167 (76 pts) | #2698 (61 pts) |