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.
Pig Out Bar B Q 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 136 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 Pig Out Bar B Q 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 Pig Out Bar B Q's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after Pig Out Bar B Q did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Pig Out Bar B Q 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 | 169.6684 | 161.0856 | 165.38 | top 65% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3716 | 96.8460 | 126.11 | top 96% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 175.4628 | 166.8572 | 171.16 | top 31% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.8344 | 146.2404 | 148.54 | top 96% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 91% | 90.5% | 84.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-12-01 | Smokin up the Campground (GBC Qualifier) Calhoun, GA | 30 / 30 (571.0292) | 25 (161.0856) | 30 (96.8460) | 17 (166.8572) | 30 (146.2404) |
| 2017-05-12 | Roman Roast on the River Rome, GA | 30 / 37 (651.3372) | 17 (169.6684) | 34 (155.3716) | 2 (175.4628) | 34 (150.8344) |