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.
Woody's Bar-b-Que 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 142 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 Woody's Bar-b-Que has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Woody's Bar-b-Que's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after Woody's Bar-b-Que did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Woody's Bar-b-Que 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 | 160.5828 | 157.1424 | 158.86 | top 64% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.1430 | 147.9200 | 150.53 | top 73% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.0972 | 129.7142 | 145.41 | top 88% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.4286 | 141.6916 | 142.56 | 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.
| 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 94% | 84.9% | 84.9% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 80% | 81% | 81% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-03-23 | 7th Annual Santa Anita Winners Circle BBQ Championship Arcadia, CA | 73 / 78 (611.2916) | 60 (160.5828) | 75 (147.9200) | 61 (161.0972) | 76 (141.6916) |
| 2013-05-17 | Bakersfield's Biggest Baddest BBQ Championship Bakersfield, CA | 52 / 65 (583.4282) | 33 (157.1424) | 33 (153.1430) | 63 (129.7142) | 43 (143.4286) |