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.
JOE MAMA'S RIBS 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 127 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 JOE MAMA'S RIBS has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head11 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where JOE MAMA'S RIBS's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after JOE MAMA'S RIBS did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with JOE MAMA'S RIBS 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 | 165.1772 | 149.1544 | 157.17 | top 56% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0116 | 152.0116 | 158.01 | top 55% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0000 | 153.1200 | 158.56 | top 48% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.0000 | 140.4912 | 146.25 | top 65% |
“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 | 0 | 0% | top 62% | 88% | 86.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-09-19 | Que by the Sea Seaside Heights, NJ | 34 / 41 (606.2860) | 37 (149.1544) | 31 (152.0116) | 31 (153.1200) | 22 (152.0000) |
| 2015-07-10 | New Jersey State Barbecue Championship North Wildwood, NJ | 27 / 65 (633.6800) | 14 (165.1772) | 23 (164.0116) | 13 (164.0000) | 49 (140.4912) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 ↗ | Master | #2158 (60 pts) | #2209 (60 pts) | #2209 (60 pts) | #2225 (60 pts) | #2111 (75 pts) |