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.
BIG SLICK COOKER 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 106 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team BIG SLICK COOKER has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where BIG SLICK COOKER's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after BIG SLICK COOKER did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BIG SLICK COOKER 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 | 166.8456 | 149.0972 | 157.97 | top 47% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5140 | 153.6800 | 155.10 | top 67% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 138.7884 | 151.10 | top 65% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6916 | 163.9772 | 166.83 | top 22% |
“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 26% | 90.8% | 90.8% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 72% | 84.5% | 84.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-02-02 | *Humble Rodeo and BBQ Humble, TX | 37 / 145 (653.6344) | 30 (166.8456) | 97 (153.6800) | 55 (163.4172) | 18 (169.6916) |
| 2017-02-03 | *Humble Rodeo & BBQ ( WFC Qualifier) Humble, TX | 98 / 136 (608.3768) | 100 (149.0972) | 91 (156.5140) | 124 (138.7884) | 44 (163.9772) |