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.
NOT BROTHERS 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 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 NOT BROTHERS 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 NOT BROTHERS 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-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 | 159.9772 | 158.8000 | 159.39 | top 80% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5716 | 163.4060 | 163.99 | top 55% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 175.4400 | 159.3944 | 167.42 | top 42% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6916 | 148.5256 | 155.11 | top 77% |
“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 74% | 89.5% | 89.5% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 76% | 89.9% | 89.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-20 | BBQ 'Loo & Blues TOO! Waterloo, IA | 31 / 42 (644.4576) | 37 (158.8000) | 23 (164.5716) | 33 (159.3944) | 24 (161.6916) |
| 2017-07-21 | *Up in Smoke BBQ Bash Mason City, IA | 37 / 49 (647.3488) | 35 (159.9772) | 27 (163.4060) | 3 (175.4400) | 47 (148.5256) |