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 216 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 116 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team BBQ 216 has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head9 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where BBQ 216's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BBQ 216 on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after BBQ 216 did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ 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 | 167.9772 | 155.9200 | 161.95 | top 63% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9428 | 153.0628 | 158.50 | top 74% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8116 | 150.8112 | 156.81 | top 74% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.7772 | 143.9544 | 149.37 | top 88% |
“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 | 0% | top 85% | 88.7% | 87% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-01 | PigMania Lebanon State Championship BBQ & Music Festival( TEAMS AND JUDGES FULL) 🏅 Lebanon, OH | 39 / 40 (614.5712) | 37 (155.9200) | 37 (153.0628) | 39 (150.8112) | 34 (154.7772) |
| 2017-07-07 | *Ohio Veterans Barbecue Cook-Off Kettering, OH | 30 / 41 (638.6860) | 14 (167.9772) | 23 (163.9428) | 21 (162.8116) | 37 (143.9544) |