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.
Hale'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 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 Hale's BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1511 at their best, 33 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 6 years after Hale's BBQ did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Hale'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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 159.3600 | 163.67 | top 71% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5140 | 148.5144 | 158.51 | top 76% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3600 | 153.0856 | 156.22 | top 89% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6684 | 146.2628 | 157.97 | top 67% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cullman Oktoberfest BBQ Challenge | 2 | 23 | 0 | top 93% | 2014-10-10 |
| 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 92% | 88% | 88% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 94% | 88.8% | 88.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-10 | Cullman Oktoberfest BBQ Challenge Cullman, AL | 23 / 25 (633.4968) | 22 (159.3600) | 13 (168.5140) | 21 (159.3600) | 24 (146.2628) |
| 2013-10-11 | Cullman Oktoberfest BBQ Challenge Cullman, AL | 30 / 32 (639.2456) | 17 (167.9772) | 32 (148.5144) | 30 (153.0856) | 12 (169.6684) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 ↗ | Master | #2700 (60 pts) | #2633 (65 pts) | #1970 (110 pts) | #2573 (70 pts) | #2777 (55 pts) |