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.
JUST A COUPLE OF DRUNKS 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 149 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 JUST A COUPLE OF DRUNKS has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1505 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with JUST A COUPLE OF DRUNKS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after JUST A COUPLE OF DRUNKS did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where JUST A COUPLE OF DRUNKS's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.4400 | 146.2172 | 148.83 | top 90% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.7772 | 131.8972 | 139.34 | top 98% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7372 | 151.4056 | 154.57 | top 80% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 139.3488 | 137.1088 | 138.23 | top 95% |
“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 98% | 80.8% | 80.8% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 80.6% | 80.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-07-21 | Riverfest Community Festival Bellevue, NE | 45 / 46 (581.5088) | 44 (146.2172) | 45 (146.7772) | 42 (151.4056) | 43 (137.1088) |
| 2016-07-15 | RiverFest Red White and Que Bellevue, NE | 44 / 45 (580.4232) | 38 (151.4400) | 44 (131.8972) | 31 (157.7372) | 43 (139.3488) |