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.
Custom Pig Gigs 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 142 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 Custom Pig Gigs 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 Custom Pig Gigs did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Custom Pig Gigs 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 167.4172 | 148.5028 | 157.96 | top 59% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7144 | 144.5372 | 151.13 | top 75% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8800 | 147.3828 | 155.13 | top 65% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6916 | 145.6572 | 151.67 | top 67% |
“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 59% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 79% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 69% | 88% | 85.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-08-05 | Capital BBQ Festival Ottawa, ON | 33 / 42 (598.1144) | 38 (148.5028) | 36 (144.5372) | 34 (147.3828) | 18 (157.6916) |
| 2017-06-09 | *Drayton Kinsmen Smoke and Sounds Festival Drayton Ontario, N4B 2W4 | 13 / 22 (633.6688) | 6 (167.4172) | 14 (157.7144) | 11 (162.8800) | 20 (145.6572) |