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.
GRUMPYS BBQ 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 113 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 GRUMPYS 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 GRUMPYS 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-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where GRUMPYS BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3944 | 163.3944 | 163.39 | top 44% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 178.8800 | 178.8800 | 178.88 | top 4% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.4744 | 155.4744 | 155.47 | top 70% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.3600 | 147.3600 | 147.36 | top 81% |
“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% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100% | top 37% | 89.6% | 89.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-08-10 | Mountain High BBQ Festival & Car Show Franklin, NC | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-06-26 | Leadville BBQ and Brew Festival Leadville, CO | 10 / 27 (645.1088) | 12 (163.3944) | 1 (178.8800) | 19 (155.4744) | 22 (147.3600) |