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.
Bold BBQ Pit 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 144 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 Bold BBQ Pit 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 Bold BBQ Pit on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after Bold BBQ Pit did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ 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 | 163.9772 | 160.5716 | 162.27 | top 63% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7028 | 153.1200 | 159.41 | top 63% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1200 | 142.8456 | 149.98 | top 84% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.6572 | 135.9316 | 142.79 | top 92% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 88% | 86.4% | 86.4% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 84.3% | 84.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-30 | Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival 🏅 Bedford, TX | 51 / 58 (622.1828) | 42 (163.9772) | 30 (165.7028) | 55 (142.8456) | 51 (149.6572) |
| 2014-08-30 | City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival Bedford, TX | 68 / 76 (606.7432) | 40 (160.5716) | 57 (153.1200) | 56 (157.1200) | 73 (135.9316) |