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.
WOOD SHED REAL PIT 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 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team WOOD SHED REAL PIT 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 WOOD SHED REAL PIT BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after WOOD SHED REAL PIT BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with WOOD SHED REAL PIT 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-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 | 166.8456 | 151.3484 | 159.10 | top 87% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8344 | 155.9772 | 159.41 | top 83% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.0000 | 165.1428 | 168.57 | top 51% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5144 | 149.6800 | 155.10 | top 87% |
“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 89% | 87.9% | 87.9% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 87% | 90.5% | 90.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-23 | Blount County BBQ Bash Maryville, TN | 31 / 35 (632.9828) | 33 (151.3484) | 30 (155.9772) | 23 (165.1428) | 29 (160.5144) |
| 2016-06-24 | Big BBQ Bash Maryville, TN | 27 / 31 (651.3600) | 25 (166.8456) | 25 (162.8344) | 11 (172.0000) | 28 (149.6800) |