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.
Hops & Hogs 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 136 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 Hops & Hogs 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-headLevel with Hops & Hogs on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2015.
⚔ 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 | 161.7372 | 160.0116 | 160.87 | top 68% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.0000 | 146.8116 | 149.41 | top 94% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.5368 | 147.3828 | 147.96 | top 99% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.8344 | 145.1088 | 145.97 | top 99% |
“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 97% | 83.5% | 83.5% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 84.4% | 84.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-07-22 | Rotary Club of Wakefield Rhode Island Kingston, RI | 33 / 34 (601.0404) | 26 (160.0116) | 32 (146.8116) | 33 (147.3828) | 33 (146.8344) |
| 2015-07-17 | Wakefield Rotary Campus Cook Off Kingston, RI | 36 / 37 (607.3828) | 22 (161.7372) | 35 (152.0000) | 37 (148.5368) | 37 (145.1088) |