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.
Bethany Blues BBQ 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 141 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 Bethany Blues BBQ 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-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2014.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Bethany Blues BBQ 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 | 151.4860 | 150.8344 | 151.16 | top 83% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.1200 | 137.7028 | 143.41 | top 89% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.5140 | 133.6344 | 141.07 | top 87% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 142.2972 | 81.9200 | 112.11 | top 92% |
“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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 99% | 71.6% | 71.6% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 88% | 80.6% | 80.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-10-20 | Boo-B-Que Rehobeth Beach, DE | 68 / 69 (515.5088) | 64 (150.8344) | 60 (149.1200) | 68 (133.6344) | 69 (81.9200) |
| 2014-04-11 | Delaware's Triple Threat BBQ Festival at the Fair Harrington, DE | 96 / 109 (580.0000) | 79 (151.4860) | 100 (137.7028) | 83 (148.5140) | 92 (142.2972) |