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.
DOUGS BACKYARD 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 142 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team DOUGS BACKYARD 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-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after DOUGS BACKYARD BBQ did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with DOUGS BACKYARD BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1544 | 145.1084 | 155.13 | top 69% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.4056 | 142.2744 | 144.84 | top 96% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8228 | 142.8228 | 150.82 | top 79% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.9428 | 131.9316 | 137.94 | top 95% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 82.7% | 81.8% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-08 | *Silver Lake Apple BBQ Festival Silver Lake, MI | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-06-10 | ELF Khurafeh Shrine BBQ Competition and Music Festival Clio, MI | 20 / 20 (582.1832) | 11 (165.1544) | 20 (142.2744) | 20 (142.8228) | 20 (131.9316) |
| 2016-05-20 | *2nd Annual Pork in the Park Wyandotte, MI | 26 / 28 (595.2796) | 23 (145.1084) | 26 (147.4056) | 16 (158.8228) | 25 (143.9428) |
| 2015-09-11 | Silver Lake Apple BBQ Festival Mears, MI | — | — | — | — | — |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 ↗ | Master | #1761 (123 pts) | #1584 (178 pts) | #1877 (123 pts) | #1652 (168 pts) | #1826 (123 pts) |