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.
PORK NASTY 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 160 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 PORK NASTY 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-headThey turned up 6 years after PORK NASTY BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with PORK NASTY 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-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 | 159.9544 | 145.7028 | 152.83 | top 71% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7372 | 145.1316 | 151.43 | top 75% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4056 | 154.2856 | 160.85 | top 56% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.4400 | 148.5600 | 152.00 | top 62% |
“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 85% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 56% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 56% | 87.2% | 87.2% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 85% | 84.2% | 84.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-28 | *Jonesboro Downtown BBQ Festival Jonesboro, AR | 25 / 45 (627.9316) | 24 (159.9544) | 39 (145.1316) | 12 (167.4056) | 22 (155.4400) |
| 2017-09-29 | *Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival Jonesboro, AR | 28 / 33 (606.2856) | 29 (145.7028) | 21 (157.7372) | 28 (154.2856) | 25 (148.5600) |