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.
Three Blokes and a Butcher 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 134 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 Three Blokes and a Butcher 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 turned up 6 years after Three Blokes and a Butcher did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Three Blokes and a Butcher 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 | 160.0344 | 155.9772 | 158.01 | top 51% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2744 | 146.2972 | 152.29 | top 60% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5484 | 142.8000 | 149.67 | top 75% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.7028 | 135.9316 | 144.82 | top 76% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 88% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 56% |
| 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 56% | 87.3% | 87.3% |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 88% | 80.7% | 80.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-02-04 | Yak Ales Melbourne Barbecue Festival Melbourne, 8008 | 24 / 43 (628.5600) | 20 (160.0344) | 21 (158.2744) | 28 (156.5484) | 29 (153.7028) |
| 2016-02-05 | The Yaks Melbourne BBQ Festival Melbourne, AU | 30 / 34 (581.0060) | 19 (155.9772) | 24 (146.2972) | 29 (142.8000) | 29 (135.9316) |