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.
Hillbilly Couzins 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 Hillbilly Couzins has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1524 at their best, 31 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Hillbilly Couzins 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2400 | 154.2400 | 154.24 | top 84% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 167.3944 | 167.39 | top 38% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9884 | 167.9884 | 167.99 | top 34% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 135.8972 | 135.8972 | 135.90 | top 97% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 80% | 86.9% | 86.9% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | — | — |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 447 / 557 (625.5200) | 467 (154.2400) | 213 (167.3944) | 188 (167.9884) | 542 (135.8972) |
| 2014-07-18 | Wine, Brew & Bar-B-Que Too! New Palestine, IN | — | — | — | — | — |