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.
HUCKLEBERRY'S SMOKE THERAPY has 3 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 145 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 HUCKLEBERRY'S SMOKE THERAPY has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with HUCKLEBERRY'S SMOKE THERAPY on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2016.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 3.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1312 | 150.2400 | 157.50 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7372 | 137.6456 | 151.02 | top 80% |
| Pork | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.4400 | 138.2284 | 151.02 | top 72% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.6288 | 145.6572 | 154.47 | top 66% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MI | 2 | 0 | top 78% |
| NY | 1 | 0 | top 89% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 78% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 89% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -11.6 | Westland Area Jaycee's All American BBQ Throwdown | 2018-08-03 |
| -11.5 | Ointoberfest BBQ Cookoff | 2016-09-23 |
| -0.5 | All American BBQ Throwdown | 2017-08-04 |
| 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 95% | 84% | 84% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 62% | 88.8% | 88.8% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 83% | 83% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-08-03 | Westland Area Jaycee's All American BBQ Throwdown Westland, MI | 37 / 39 (605.0400) | 38 (150.2400) | 24 (161.7372) | 36 (147.4056) | 36 (145.6572) |
| 2017-08-04 | All American BBQ Throwdown Westland, MI | 18 / 29 (639.3828) | 11 (165.1312) | 24 (153.6800) | 7 (167.4400) | 23 (153.1316) |
| 2016-09-23 | Ointoberfest BBQ Cookoff Clarence, NY | 48 / 54 (597.6456) | 35 (157.1428) | 52 (137.6456) | 54 (138.2284) | 14 (164.6288) |