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.
A VIEW TO A GRILL 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 129 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.
Fewer contests behind them than A VIEW TO A GRILL has cooked, 5 to 13, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after A VIEW TO A GRILL did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with A VIEW TO A GRILL on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than A VIEW TO A GRILL has cooked, 5 to 13, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than A VIEW TO A GRILL has cooked, 5 to 13, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-headFewer contests behind them than A VIEW TO A GRILL has cooked, 5 to 13, which makes theirs the less settled rating of the two.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6800 | 154.2744 | 160.74 | top 69% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173.7144 | 131.9544 | 158.27 | top 58% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5372 | 156.5372 | 156.54 | top 92% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 130.1488 | 130.1488 | 130.15 | top 100% |
“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 92% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 37% |
| 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% | — | — | — |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2016 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 65% | 84.7% | 65% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-04 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-09-15 | Big Brother Big Sister Riverfest Decatur, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2017-05-05 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-09-09 | Decatur Jaycee's 22nd Annual Riverfest Decatur, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-07-29 | Cotton Pickin BBQ Cook-Off Hartselle, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2016-05-06 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-09-11 | Decatur Jaycee's 21st Annual Riverfest Decatur, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-07-31 | I Grill Because I CARE (Competitor's Series) New Hope, AL | — | 15 (169.6800) | 13 (173.7144) | — | — |
| 2015-05-15 | Cotton Pickin' BBQ Cookoff Hartselle, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2015-05-01 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-09-19 | 20th Annual Decatur Jaycee's Riverfest Decatur, AL | 28 / 75 (325.7144) | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-05-16 | Cotton Pickin' BBQ Cookoff Hartselle, AL | 24 / 26 (610.1148) | 25 (154.2744) | 10 (169.1544) | 24 (156.5372) | 26 (130.1488) |
| 2013-08-17 | I Grill Because I CARE (Competitor's Series) New Hope, AL | — | 15 (158.2628) | 23 (131.9544) | — | — |