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.
Slim's Competition Barbeque Team 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 157 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Slim's Competition Barbeque Team's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Slim's Competition Barbeque Team on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Slim's Competition Barbeque Team's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Slim's Competition Barbeque Team's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Slim's Competition Barbeque Team's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.6800 | 145.6800 | 145.68 | top 87% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3832 | 155.3832 | 155.38 | top 65% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5600 | 156.5600 | 156.56 | top 74% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 137.6688 | 137.6688 | 137.67 | top 94% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 87% | 82.7% | 82.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-07 | Almost Heaven BBQ Bash 🏅 Roanoke, WV | 27 / 31 (595.2920) | 27 (145.6800) | 20 (155.3832) | 23 (156.5600) | 29 (137.6688) |
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 ↗ | Master | #2507 (56 pts) | #2520 (56 pts) | #1894 (81 pts) | #1993 (66 pts) | #2509 (56 pts) |