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.
SPbRUCED Up 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 115 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 SPbRUCED Up BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where SPbRUCED Up BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after SPbRUCED Up BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SPbRUCED Up BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where SPbRUCED Up BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ 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 | 155.9428 | 152.5256 | 154.23 | top 96% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1084 | 150.2972 | 155.70 | top 91% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5600 | 165.1544 | 168.86 | top 50% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2744 | 139.3828 | 148.83 | top 87% |
“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 84% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 100% |
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wild West BBQ Shoot Out | 2 | 31 | 0 | top 92% | 2018-08-24 |
| 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% | 86.3% | 86.3% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 84% | 88% | 88% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-08-24 | Wild West BBQ Shoot Out Wendover, NV | 46 / 46 (621.5884) | 45 (155.9428) | 40 (161.1084) | 35 (165.1544) | 45 (139.3828) |
| 2016-08-26 | Wild West BBQ Shoot Out Wendover, NV | 31 / 37 (633.6572) | 35 (152.5256) | 35 (150.2972) | 9 (172.5600) | 28 (158.2744) |