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.
RISE & SWINE 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 139 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 RISE & SWINE 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 RISE & SWINE BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2013, 5 years before RISE & SWINE BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where RISE & SWINE BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3944 | 151.9084 | 153.65 | top 87% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.0744 | 141.6344 | 147.35 | top 93% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 155.9656 | 163.11 | top 63% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1316 | 134.7544 | 147.94 | top 89% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| GA | 1 | 0 | top 88% |
| SC | 1 | 0 | top 88% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 88% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 88% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 88% | 88.4% | 85% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-12 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival Lyons, GA | 23 / 26 (636.3772) | 24 (151.9084) | 24 (153.0744) | 13 (170.2628) | 22 (161.1316) |
| 2018-07-12 | SC Festival Of Discovery Greenwood, SC | 78 / 89 (587.7488) | 72 (155.3944) | 83 (141.6344) | 68 (155.9656) | 83 (134.7544) |