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.
PACKER BACKER 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 141 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 PACKER BACKER BBQ 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 PACKER BACKER BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after PACKER BACKER BBQ did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with PACKER BACKER 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 | 162.2972 | 151.9998 | 157.15 | top 92% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.4628 | 139.4284 | 149.45 | top 83% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 164.5714 | 162.2856 | 163.43 | top 51% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5144 | 158.2856 | 159.40 | top 72% |
“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 80% | 89.5% | 89.5% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 90% | 85.3% | 85.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-16 | Rock'n Brews & BBQ Festival Nampa, ID | 20 / 25 (644.5600) | 22 (162.2972) | 18 (159.4628) | 17 (162.2856) | 22 (160.5144) |
| 2013-04-05 | Sam's Club National BBQ Tour Salt Lake City, UT | 26 / 29 (614.2852) | 28 (151.9998) | 27 (139.4284) | 10 (164.5714) | 16 (158.2856) |