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.
Devine Swine 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 146 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 Devine Swine has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1509 at their best, 36 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after Devine Swine did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Devine Swine on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before Devine Swine's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6684 | 146.2856 | 149.98 | top 95% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.0228 | 152.0000 | 160.01 | top 72% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7028 | 157.1426 | 161.42 | top 68% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5714 | 20.0000 | 90.29 | top 77% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| LA | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| AL | 1 | 0 | top 92% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 92% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 70.5% | 70.5% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 85.6% | 85.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-28 | Back The Blue BBQ 🏅 Vidalia, LA | 22 / 22 (507.3940) | 20 (153.6684) | 11 (168.0228) | 12 (165.7028) | 22 (20.0000) |
| 2013-05-03 | The Whistle Stop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | 57 / 62 (615.9996) | 61 (146.2856) | 58 (152.0000) | 50 (157.1426) | 33 (160.5714) |