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.
Barking Spider BBQ and Brewery 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 146 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Barking Spider BBQ and Brewery 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-headThey've been 1509 at their best, 36 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Barking Spider BBQ and Brewery did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Barking Spider BBQ and Brewery 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.0000 | 20.0000 | 20.00 | top 100% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.9884 | 126.7200 | 137.35 | top 96% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6456 | 150.8000 | 152.22 | top 95% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5372 | 142.1944 | 155.37 | top 64% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ | 2 | 67 | 0 | top 99% | 2017-05-05 |
| 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 99% | 58.7% | 58.7% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 67.7% | 67.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-05-05 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | 68 / 69 (422.5600) | — | 68 (126.7200) | 64 (153.6456) | 67 (142.1944) |
| 2016-05-06 | The Whistlestop Festival & Rocket City BBQ Huntsville, AL | 67 / 67 (487.3256) | 67 (20.0000) | 63 (147.9884) | 65 (150.8000) | 21 (168.5372) |