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.
BBQ-214 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 121 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 BBQ-214 has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where BBQ-214's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BBQ-214 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 BBQ-214's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 8 years before BBQ-214's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before BBQ-214'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2628 | 158.2628 | 158.26 | top 80% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8800 | 158.8800 | 158.88 | top 80% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8684 | 166.8684 | 166.87 | top 51% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7600 | 161.7600 | 161.76 | top 73% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 89.7% | 89.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-13 | Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ 🏅 Huntsville, AL | 37 / 49 (645.7712) | 39 (158.2628) | 39 (158.8800) | 25 (166.8684) | 36 (161.7600) |