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.
Pork, Sweat & Beers 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 Pork, Sweat & Beers 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-headLevel with Pork, Sweat & Beers on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Pork, Sweat & Beers did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ 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 | 162.2400 | 150.7772 | 156.51 | top 85% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.0116 | 155.9656 | 155.99 | top 78% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8572 | 146.8572 | 150.86 | top 81% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141.6684 | 107.3716 | 124.52 | 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 100% | 79.5% | 79.5% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 83.8% | 83.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-07 | Keystone Classic BBQ State Championship 🏅 Harrisburg, PA | 47 / 47 (572.4804) | 35 (162.2400) | 40 (156.0116) | 43 (146.8572) | 47 (107.3716) |
| 2015-10-02 | Keystone Classic Barbeque Harrisburg, PA | 51 / 57 (603.2684) | 55 (150.7772) | 40 (155.9656) | 40 (154.8572) | 54 (141.6684) |