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.
Die Grillen 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 146 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 Die Grillen has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1505 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after Die Grillen did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Die Grillen 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.7484 | 135.3712 | 144.56 | top 91% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.0344 | 141.6344 | 150.83 | top 74% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.6800 | 139.9656 | 142.82 | top 93% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.7772 | 134.8344 | 140.81 | top 88% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 76.6% | 76.6% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 88% | 84.2% | 84.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-22 | 5th Ruhrpott BBQ 2018 Waltrop, | 73 / 73 (551.8056) | 73 (135.3712) | 71 (141.6344) | 70 (139.9656) | 70 (134.8344) |
| 2017-09-22 | 4th Ruhrpott BBQ 2017 Waltrop NRW, Germany, | 58 / 66 (606.2400) | 54 (153.7484) | 34 (160.0344) | 60 (145.6800) | 53 (146.7772) |