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.
Fo Sizzle 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 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Fo Sizzle BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Fo Sizzle BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Fo Sizzle BBQ did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Fo Sizzle 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 | 167.9772 | 161.6800 | 164.83 | top 74% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5600 | 156.5488 | 160.55 | top 69% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 142.8228 | 138.8228 | 140.82 | top 98% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5484 | 152.0000 | 160.27 | top 63% |
“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 84% | 87.8% | 87.8% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 93% | 86.3% | 86.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-02 | *Horse Town Brew B Que Festival( Judges Full) Norco, CA | 48 / 57 (631.8972) | 37 (167.9772) | 51 (156.5488) | 57 (138.8228) | 23 (168.5484) |
| 2016-06-03 | Horse Town Brew n Que Festival Norco, CA | 54 / 58 (621.0628) | 48 (161.6800) | 28 (164.5600) | 56 (142.8228) | 50 (152.0000) |