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.
BEENO'S BBQ 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 BEENO'S BBQ 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 8 years after BEENO'S BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BEENO'S BBQ 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 | 160.5716 | 146.2172 | 153.39 | top 81% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9544 | 154.2400 | 159.10 | top 58% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.1660 | 150.7772 | 151.97 | top 87% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1088 | 143.3256 | 152.22 | top 70% |
“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 92% | 84.6% | 84.6% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 71% | 86.7% | 86.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-08 | Smoke on the Water Barbecue Championship Atlantic City, NJ | 44 / 48 (608.9144) | 32 (160.5716) | 37 (154.2400) | 45 (150.7772) | 44 (143.3256) |
| 2015-05-29 | Monadnock Up in Smoke BBQ Fest Swanzey, NH | 35 / 49 (624.4464) | 47 (146.2172) | 19 (163.9544) | 39 (153.1660) | 24 (161.1088) |