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.
Mean Gene 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 124 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 Mean Gene BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Mean Gene BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 9 years before Mean Gene BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before Mean Gene BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Mean Gene BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2016, 6 years before Mean Gene BBQ'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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 174.8572 | 174.8572 | 174.86 | top 29% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9316 | 155.9316 | 155.93 | top 79% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3828 | 167.3828 | 167.38 | top 57% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.2056 | 146.2056 | 146.21 | top 93% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 75% | 89.5% | 89.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-06-03 | Covington World's Oldest Barbeque Festival 🏅 Covington, TN | 21 / 28 (644.3772) | 8 (174.8572) | 22 (155.9316) | 16 (167.3828) | 26 (146.2056) |