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.
SWEET T'S 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 150 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 SWEET T'S BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where SWEET T'S BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1511 at their best, 33 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after SWEET T'S BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SWEET T'S 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.0000 | 158.3084 | 159.15 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.8572 | 146.3432 | 148.60 | top 92% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.9028 | 151.4744 | 153.19 | top 82% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 142.7888 | 20.0000 | 81.39 | 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 94% | 83.9% | 75.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-24 | *Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle Washington, DC | 30 / 33 (604.0348) | 23 (160.0000) | 32 (146.3432) | 28 (154.9028) | 31 (142.7888) |
| 2017-06-09 | Beltway BBQ Showdown Upper Marlboro, MD | 28 / 29 (480.6400) | 22 (158.3084) | 25 (150.8572) | 23 (151.4744) | 28 (20.0000) |