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.
Area 51 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 154 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 Area 51 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 Area 51 did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Area 51 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 | 163.3828 | 162.8228 | 163.10 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6800 | 155.4288 | 160.55 | top 69% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.6684 | 150.8000 | 158.23 | top 81% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1084 | 157.0972 | 163.10 | top 56% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| FL | 1 | 0 | top 65% |
| TN | 1 | 0 | top 83% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 83% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 65% |
| 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 65% | 90.1% | 90.1% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 89.1% | 89.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-26 | Lakeland Pig Festival Lakeland, FL | 39 / 60 (648.4112) | 41 (162.8228) | 28 (165.6800) | 53 (150.8000) | 18 (169.1084) |
| 2014-10-17 | Mid-South Barbecue Festival Mount Pleasant, TN | 29 / 35 (641.5772) | 27 (163.3828) | 32 (155.4288) | 26 (165.6684) | 29 (157.0972) |