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.
Hog Tied 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 125 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 Hog Tied 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-headThey turned up 5 years after Hog Tied did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Hog Tied 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9428 | 151.3944 | 151.67 | top 84% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 169.1544 | 162.3088 | 165.73 | top 36% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 172.5600 | 160.0572 | 166.31 | top 39% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 153.6572 | 139.3372 | 146.50 | top 73% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CT | 1 | 0 | top 25% |
| KS | 1 | 0 | top 90% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 25% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 90% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 25% | 89.9% | 89.9% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 90% | 85.2% | 85.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-15 | *Hartford Rib Off(COMPETITOR'S SERIES) Hartford, CT | 4 / 16 (647.3144) | 12 (151.9428) | 3 (169.1544) | 2 (172.5600) | 8 (153.6572) |
| 2015-04-10 | Smoke in the Spring Osage City, KS | 87 / 97 (613.0976) | 91 (151.3944) | 51 (162.3088) | 63 (160.0572) | 93 (139.3372) |