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.
Knights of the Holey Grill has 1 rated contest — 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 Knights of the Holey Grill has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Knights of the Holey Grill's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after Knights of the Holey Grill did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Knights of the Holey Grill on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Knights of the Holey Grill's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Knights of the Holey Grill's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5372 | 168.5372 | 168.54 | top 55% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9656 | 159.9656 | 159.97 | top 83% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5028 | 152.5028 | 152.50 | top 97% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.2056 | 150.2056 | 150.21 | top 97% |
“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 90% | 87.7% | 87.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-10-13 | The Real Squeal BBQ & Music Festival (GBC Qualifier) Lyons, GA | 26 / 29 (631.2112) | 16 (168.5372) | 24 (159.9656) | 28 (152.5028) | 28 (150.2056) |