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.
Life Is Good But BBQ Is Bettter 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 123 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Life Is Good But BBQ Is Bettter's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Life Is Good But BBQ Is Bettter on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Life Is Good But BBQ Is Bettter's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 6 years before Life Is Good But BBQ Is Bettter's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Life Is Good But BBQ Is Bettter's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.0968 | 165.0968 | 165.10 | top 56% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1200 | 161.1200 | 161.12 | top 51% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.0972 | 153.0972 | 153.10 | top 89% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3828 | 163.3828 | 163.38 | top 44% |
“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 71% | 89.3% | 89.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-03-22 | BBQ Gives Back-III (Day 1) 🏅 Urbanna, VA | 45 / 63 (642.6968) | 35 (165.0968) | 32 (161.1200) | 56 (153.0972) | 28 (163.3828) |