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.
THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE, SON! TEAM BBQ has 1 rated contest — 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 125 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.
5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE, SON! TEAM BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE, SON! TEAM BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 5 years after THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE, SON! TEAM BBQ did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE, SON! TEAM BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE, SON! TEAM BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1428 | 169.1428 | 169.14 | top 47% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5484 | 168.5484 | 168.55 | top 39% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3828 | 155.3828 | 155.38 | top 92% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.0856 | 165.0856 | 165.09 | top 58% |
“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 61% | 91.4% | 91.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-26 | Pigs and Peaches BBQ Festival (GBC Qualifier) Kennesaw, GA | 23 / 38 (658.1596) | 18 (169.1428) | 15 (168.5484) | 35 (155.3828) | 22 (165.0856) |