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.
Characters 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 141 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 Characters 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-headThey turned up 9 years after Characters BBQ did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Characters 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7028 | 162.2284 | 163.97 | top 65% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3828 | 153.6568 | 158.52 | top 72% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 167.9656 | 168.54 | top 44% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9772 | 147.9428 | 153.96 | top 82% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 67% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 73% |
| 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 67% | 90.8% | 90.8% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 73% | 88.4% | 88.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-05 | Atlanta BBQ Festival Atlanta, GA | 18 / 27 (653.5540) | 19 (162.2284) | 16 (163.3828) | 16 (167.9656) | 20 (159.9772) |
| 2015-08-14 | Atlanta BarB-Que Festival Atlanta, GA | 35 / 48 (636.4224) | 29 (165.7028) | 41 (153.6568) | 14 (169.1200) | 43 (147.9428) |