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.
Los MexiQ"tioners 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 132 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 Los MexiQ"tioners 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-headThey turned up 5 years after Los MexiQ"tioners BBQ did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 9 contests, alongside a 33% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Los MexiQ"tioners 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.4400 | 165.1656 | 166.30 | top 36% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 161.6916 | 132.3772 | 147.03 | top 72% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8572 | 141.1200 | 151.99 | top 71% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5372 | 144.5488 | 148.54 | top 74% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 81% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 76% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 81% | 85.4% | 85.4% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 85.1% | 85.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-08-11 | Ceres Bands Brews & BBQ Throwdown / Formerly Smoke on the River Ceres, CA | 17 / 21 (614.8004) | 7 (167.4400) | 10 (161.6916) | 21 (141.1200) | 17 (144.5488) |
| 2016-06-24 | Silicon Valley Barbeque Championships Santa Clara, CA | 41 / 54 (612.9372) | 21 (165.1656) | 52 (132.3772) | 23 (162.8572) | 36 (152.5372) |