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.
RiskA Pigness 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 136 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 RiskA Pigness 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 RiskA Pigness's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after RiskA Pigness did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with RiskA Pigness 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 | 162.8684 | 149.6800 | 156.27 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0572 | 147.4060 | 155.73 | top 72% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.4056 | 151.3712 | 151.39 | top 89% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2972 | 139.3716 | 146.83 | top 83% |
“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 85% | 86% | 86% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 83.5% | 83.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-29 | 37th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue(OPEN) Kansas City, KS | 472 / 557 (619.4400) | 505 (149.6800) | 296 (164.0572) | 504 (151.4056) | 403 (154.2972) |
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 559 / 606 (601.0172) | 335 (162.8684) | 550 (147.4060) | 536 (151.3712) | 572 (139.3716) |