Still inside their first twelve months: see what a first season usually looks like.
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.
SPEC 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 118 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 SPEC 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 SPEC's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2023, 3 years before SPEC's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 13 years before SPEC's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SPEC on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2014, 12 years before SPEC's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2628 | 166.2628 | 166.26 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1428 | 161.1428 | 161.14 | top 78% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.1884 | 153.1884 | 153.19 | top 82% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 174.2628 | 174.2628 | 174.26 | top 24% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 71% | 91% | 91% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-21 | Raider Red Meats BBQ & Ribeye Championship 🏅 Lubbock, TX | 36 / 51 (654.8568) | 34 (166.2628) | 40 (161.1428) | 42 (153.1884) | 12 (174.2628) |