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.
ESPD PORK PATROL 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 ESPD PORK PATROL 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-headThey turned up 11 years after ESPD PORK PATROL did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with ESPD PORK PATROL 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 | 165.6800 | 157.0972 | 161.39 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.4288 | 149.6800 | 154.55 | top 84% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5828 | 165.1428 | 166.86 | top 47% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6800 | 153.6572 | 155.67 | top 70% |
“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 84% | 88.1% | 88.1% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 69% | 89.3% | 89.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-19 | BBQ and Fly In on the River Excelsior Springs, MO | 47 / 56 (634.1600) | 33 (165.6800) | 53 (149.6800) | 33 (165.1428) | 43 (153.6572) |
| 2014-09-19 | Jesse James Barbeque Cook Out Kearney, MO | 34 / 49 (642.7888) | 43 (157.0972) | 36 (159.4288) | 17 (168.5828) | 31 (157.6800) |