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.
HOOK&LADDER BBQ has 3 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 118 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 HOOK&LADDER 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 3.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with HOOK&LADDER 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 3.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 14% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after HOOK&LADDER BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.9428 | 155.9656 | 161.10 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1544 | 154.8688 | 160.18 | top 59% |
| Pork | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 168.5484 | 166.2628 | 167.42 | top 36% |
| Brisket | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 171.9772 | 159.3944 | 164.16 | top 39% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| FL | 1 | 0 | top 67% |
| WA | 1 | 0 | top 32% |
| BC | 1 | 0 | top 29% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 30% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 67% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +8.5 | Barn Burner BBQ | 2015-03-21 |
| +6.7 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | 2015-04-03 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -2.1 | World Food Championships | 2015-11-03 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 67% | top 43% | 91.9% | 90.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-11-03 | World Food Championships Kissimmee, FL | 39 / 58 (661.6344) | 48 (163.9428) | 21 (169.1544) | 36 (167.4400) | 45 (161.0972) |
| 2015-04-03 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Renton, WA | 9 / 28 (650.7084) | 21 (155.9656) | 22 (156.5028) | 9 (166.2628) | 2 (171.9772) |
| 2015-03-21 | Barn Burner BBQ Yarrow, BC | 6 / 21 (646.2172) | 9 (163.4056) | 13 (154.8688) | 3 (168.5484) | 7 (159.3944) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 ↗ | Master | #1014 (299 pts) | #1393 (204 pts) | #1525 (174 pts) | #977 (359 pts) | #882 (404 pts) |