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.
FOLKS 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 95 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.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 3 years before FOLKS BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than FOLKS BBQ has cooked, 5 to 9, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after FOLKS BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with FOLKS BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than FOLKS BBQ has cooked, 6 to 9, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than FOLKS BBQ has cooked, 6 to 9, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 175.4172 | 175.4172 | 175.42 | top 5% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9428 | 151.9428 | 151.94 | top 95% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2284 | 162.2284 | 162.23 | top 69% |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“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 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0% | top 18% | 46.7% | 45.9% |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-11 | Roman Roast on the River Rome, GA | 4 / 39 (335.9316) | — | — | — | — |
| 2018-04-27 | *BBQ Boogie & Blues Calhoun, GA | 7 / 28 (325.0400) | — | — | — | — |
| 2018-03-02 | Sip & Swine BBQ Festival Lawrenceville, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-10-27 | Jack Daniel's World Championship Shade Tree Contest (BACKYARD) Lynchburg, TN | — | 2 (175.4172) | 40 (151.9428) | 29 (162.2284) | — |
| 2017-04-28 | *BBQ Boogie & Blues(GBC Qualifier) Calhoun, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-05-13 | Roman Roast on the River Rome, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-04-29 | BBQ Boogie & Blues (GBC Qualifier) Calhoun, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-04-24 | BBQ Boogie & Blues (GBC Qualifier) Calhoun, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-05-09 | Roman Roast on the River (SBBQA) Rome, GA | — | — | — | — | — |