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.
DRY HEAT 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 144 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 DRY HEAT BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1505 at their best, 30 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 7 years after DRY HEAT BBQ did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with DRY HEAT 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 | 153.6572 | 146.2400 | 149.95 | top 97% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.8228 | 148.5600 | 149.69 | top 97% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5256 | 150.8228 | 151.67 | top 100% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 131.3144 | 128.4800 | 129.90 | 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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam's Club National BBQ Tour | 2 | 28 | 0 | top 98% | 2017-03-17 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 81% | 81% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 80.4% | 80.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-03-17 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Tucson, AZ | 28 / 29 (583.2228) | 27 (153.6572) | 29 (148.5600) | 29 (152.5256) | 29 (128.4800) |
| 2015-03-20 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Tucson, AZ | 29 / 29 (579.2000) | 29 (146.2400) | 27 (150.8228) | 29 (150.8228) | 29 (131.3144) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 ↗ | Master | #2898 (54 pts) | #2889 (54 pts) | #2895 (54 pts) | #2883 (54 pts) | #2879 (54 pts) |
| 2015 ↗ | Master | #2816 (54 pts) | #2810 (54 pts) | #2812 (54 pts) | #2813 (54 pts) | #2814 (54 pts) |