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.
HATS AND HOGS has 1 rated contest — 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 125 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 HATS AND HOGS 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-headLevel with HATS AND HOGS 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-headThey turned up 8 years after HATS AND HOGS did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.0228 | 164.5256 | 166.27 | top 53% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8344 | 155.9200 | 159.38 | top 78% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5028 | 160.5028 | 160.50 | top 77% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5600 | 168.5600 | 168.56 | top 38% |
“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 67% | 90.2% | 90.2% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-05-05 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | 46 / 69 (649.5084) | 36 (164.5256) | 58 (155.9200) | 53 (160.5028) | 26 (168.5600) |
| 2015-07-31 | I Grill Because I CARE (Competitor's Series) New Hope, AL | — | 17 (168.0228) | 23 (162.8344) | — | — |