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.
The Meat 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 129 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 The Meat 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 The Meat's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with The Meat on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2014, 5 years before The Meat's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where The Meat's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where The Meat's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.7884 | 154.7884 | 154.79 | top 86% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6800 | 157.6800 | 157.68 | top 76% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2284 | 162.2284 | 162.23 | top 62% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.9428 | 147.9428 | 147.94 | top 84% |
“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 84% | 86.5% | 86.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-05-31 | Original SD BBQ Championship 🏅 Huron, SD | 31 / 37 (622.6396) | 32 (154.7884) | 28 (157.6800) | 23 (162.2284) | 31 (147.9428) |