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.
Boonetown 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 147 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 Boonetown 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 Boonetown BBQ 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-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2015.
⚔ 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 | 162.8572 | 145.0972 | 153.98 | top 74% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8572 | 154.8228 | 154.84 | top 75% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1084 | 143.3368 | 154.22 | top 70% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8228 | 142.1944 | 150.51 | top 78% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 86% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 77% |
| 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 86% | 83.6% | 83.6% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 77% | 86.8% | 86.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-05-17 | Stills and Grills Fest North Wilkesboro, NC | 18 / 21 (602.1140) | 18 (145.0972) | 15 (154.8572) | 20 (143.3368) | 14 (158.8228) |
| 2015-06-12 | Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival Tryon, NC | 60 / 78 (624.9828) | 48 (162.8572) | 61 (154.8228) | 35 (165.1084) | 69 (142.1944) |