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.
Southern Brothers 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 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 Southern Brothers BBQ 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-headLevel with Southern Brothers BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2014, 5 years before Southern Brothers BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Southern Brothers BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6800 | 156.5372 | 157.11 | top 91% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1432 | 160.6060 | 162.87 | top 78% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5256 | 160.5484 | 162.54 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5028 | 150.2400 | 151.37 | 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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL | 1 | 0 | top 86% |
| MS | 1 | 0 | top 84% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 84% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 86% |
| 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 86% | 87.5% | 87.5% |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 84% | 88.6% | 88.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-13 | Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ 🏅 Huntsville, AL | 42 / 49 (630.1944) | 44 (156.5372) | 37 (160.6060) | 38 (160.5484) | 46 (152.5028) |
| 2019-10-04 | Roast N Boast 🏅 Columbus, MS | 21 / 25 (637.5888) | 23 (157.6800) | 20 (165.1432) | 17 (164.5256) | 23 (150.2400) |