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.
FLIP N GRILL 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 144 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 FLIP N GRILL has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1505 at their best, 30 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-headThey turned up 7 years after FLIP N GRILL did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with FLIP N GRILL 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.8800 | 145.1316 | 146.01 | top 95% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 138.8116 | 131.4056 | 135.11 | top 94% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.9656 | 139.9084 | 141.94 | top 95% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.6800 | 143.3944 | 144.54 | top 80% |
“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 93% |
| 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 93% | 78.6% | 78.6% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 79% | 79% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-24 | Red White and Que Cresskill, NJ | 38 / 41 (566.1828) | 39 (145.1316) | 40 (131.4056) | 38 (143.9656) | 35 (145.6800) |
| 2015-09-26 | Red, White and Que Cresskill, NJ | 35 / 35 (568.9944) | 33 (146.8800) | 32 (138.8116) | 34 (139.9084) | 26 (143.3944) |