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.
RUBLOVERS 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 95 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 RUBLOVERS 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 RUBLOVERS did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with RUBLOVERS 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 | 163.9772 | 158.2172 | 161.10 | top 54% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.5828 | 163.4400 | 166.01 | top 25% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 174.8456 | 168.5828 | 171.71 | top 12% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.0856 | 148.5256 | 154.81 | top 59% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100% | top 32% | 91.2% | 90.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-02 | 1st Annual Hot Q's & Cold Brews BBQ Championship Oroville, CA | 15 / 41 (656.4684) | 31 (158.2172) | 9 (168.5828) | 9 (168.5828) | 18 (161.0856) |
| 2015-09-18 | Smoke on the River Sacramento, CA | 13 / 49 (650.7884) | 16 (163.9772) | 14 (163.4400) | 1 (174.8456) | 36 (148.5256) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 ↗ | Master | #1228 (230 pts) | #1567 (165 pts) | #1192 (260 pts) | #849 (430 pts) | #1576 (155 pts) |