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.
PIT FOR BRAINS 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 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 PIT FOR BRAINS has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where PIT FOR BRAINS's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after PIT FOR BRAINS did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with PIT FOR BRAINS on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where PIT FOR BRAINS's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where PIT FOR BRAINS's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9884 | 159.9884 | 159.99 | top 81% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.3600 | 147.3600 | 147.36 | top 100% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6684 | 153.6684 | 153.67 | top 97% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.7028 | 153.7028 | 153.70 | top 84% |
“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% | 85.4% | 85.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-26 | Franklin BBQ Festival Presented By Franklin Noon Rotary Club Franklin, TN | 31 / 31 (614.7196) | 25 (159.9884) | 31 (147.3600) | 30 (153.6684) | 26 (153.7028) |