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.
Pirates bbq team 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 143 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Pirates bbq team 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 Pirates bbq team's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Pirates bbq team did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Pirates bbq team 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 | 155.4172 | 147.3828 | 151.40 | top 85% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.6916 | 149.1660 | 149.43 | top 85% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 151.9888 | 157.70 | top 58% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.7144 | 138.2172 | 151.97 | top 63% |
“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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50% | top 86% | 87% | 84.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-13 | Oslofjord BBQ Challenge OSLO, Norway, NO | 21 / 28 (626.2060) | 27 (147.3828) | 24 (149.6916) | 10 (163.4172) | 8 (165.7144) |
| 2016-08-06 | Smoke in the North Gothenburg, SE | 30 / 31 (594.7892) | 23 (155.4172) | 26 (149.1660) | 25 (151.9888) | 30 (138.2172) |