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.
Sidearm 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 151 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 Sidearm has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 13 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Sidearm did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Sidearm on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1504 at their best, 32 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.2116 | 149.1316 | 159.17 | top 61% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2744 | 139.4176 | 148.85 | top 74% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1428 | 155.4512 | 156.30 | top 82% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 142.8228 | 120.4572 | 131.64 | top 98% |
“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 100% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 94% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 97% | 84.3% | 82.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-21 | Best of the Midwest BBQ Cook-off Union Grove, WI | 48 / 51 (585.0060) | 48 (149.1316) | 26 (158.2744) | 35 (157.1428) | 50 (120.4572) |
| 2016-09-09 | Puckaway Pigfest Montello, WI | 37 / 37 (606.9032) | 10 (169.2116) | 36 (139.4176) | 35 (155.4512) | 36 (142.8228) |