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.
BBQ Freunde Südtirol 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 149 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 BBQ Freunde Südtirol 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 5 years after BBQ Freunde Südtirol did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BBQ Freunde Südtirol 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-headThey've been 1504 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1772 | 153.1200 | 157.15 | top 90% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5944 | 153.7028 | 157.15 | top 77% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.9884 | 140.5028 | 148.25 | top 95% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.8572 | 134.1944 | 140.53 | top 95% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W.E.S.T. Winter extreme South Tyrol BBQ Contest | 2 | 28 | 0 | top 95% | 2018-01-13 |
| 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 97% | 82.8% | 82.8% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 84.7% | 84.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-13 | W.E.S.T. Winter extreme South Tyrol BBQ Contest Rein in Taufers, BZ | 29 / 30 (596.4688) | 24 (161.1772) | 18 (160.5944) | 30 (140.5028) | 30 (134.1944) |
| 2017-01-14 | W.E.S.T.Winter Extreme South Tyrol BBQ Contest Rein in Taufers, BZ | 28 / 30 (609.6684) | 30 (153.1200) | 28 (153.7028) | 27 (155.9884) | 27 (146.8572) |