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.
SALTED HOG BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 139 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 SALTED HOG 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-headThey turned up 10 years after SALTED HOG BBQ did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SALTED HOG 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-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.0972 | 165.0972 | 165.10 | top 59% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5144 | 152.5144 | 152.51 | top 90% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8000 | 162.8000 | 162.80 | top 70% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.8972 | 147.8972 | 147.90 | top 100% |
“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 92% | 87.3% | 87.3% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-01 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | 58 / 63 (628.3088) | 37 (165.0972) | 57 (152.5144) | 44 (162.8000) | 63 (147.8972) |
| 2015-04-17 | High on the Hog Festival Winchester, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-07-25 | Foothills Country Fair BBQ Bash Cleveland, TN | — | — | — | — | — |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 ↗ | Master | #2158 (60 pts) | #2209 (60 pts) | #2209 (60 pts) | #2225 (60 pts) | #2214 (60 pts) |