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.
The Chow Hall 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 150 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 The Chow Hall 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 7 years after The Chow Hall did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with The Chow Hall 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 | 166.2628 | 162.2512 | 164.26 | top 77% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3828 | 153.6572 | 158.52 | top 83% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7028 | 158.8228 | 160.26 | top 84% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5716 | 155.9428 | 156.26 | top 87% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Barbecue Championship | 2 | 75 | 0 | top 89% | 2017-11-08 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 95% | 88.2% | 88.2% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 84% | 89.3% | 89.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-11-08 | World Barbecue Championship Orange Beach, AL | 88 / 93 (635.3144) | 64 (166.2628) | 90 (153.6572) | 84 (158.8228) | 82 (156.5716) |
| 2016-11-11 | World Barbecue Championship Orange Beach, AL | 75 / 89 (643.2796) | 75 (162.2512) | 61 (163.3828) | 69 (161.7028) | 77 (155.9428) |