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.
Mason Jar BBQ & Catering 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 143 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Mason Jar BBQ & Catering has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Mason Jar BBQ & Catering's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Mason Jar BBQ & Catering on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2018, 3 years before Mason Jar BBQ & Catering's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2016, 5 years before Mason Jar BBQ & Catering's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5256 | 143.3716 | 149.95 | top 90% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.7256 | 150.8456 | 158.29 | top 74% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 161.0972 | 162.26 | top 76% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2172 | 144.4800 | 149.35 | top 88% |
“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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 84% | 87.5% | 86.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-15 | Smokin' on the Buffalo BBQ Brawl - Day 2 Mannington, WV | 12 / 15 (630.1484) | 12 (156.5256) | 9 (165.7256) | 12 (163.4172) | 14 (144.4800) |
| 2021-05-14 | Smokin' on the Buffalo BBQ Brawl - Day 1 🏅 Mannington, WV | 16 / 18 (609.5316) | 18 (143.3716) | 16 (150.8456) | 13 (161.0972) | 15 (154.2172) |