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.
Tut-T-Que 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 115 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 Tut-T-Que has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Tut-T-Que's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after Tut-T-Que did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Tut-T-Que on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Tut-T-Que's is still finding its level.
⚔ 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 | 159.9660 | 151.3940 | 155.68 | top 59% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.9312 | 147.3944 | 147.66 | top 81% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2628 | 144.5484 | 149.41 | top 87% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.9884 | 127.9772 | 139.98 | top 83% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| NJ | 1 | 0 | top 86% |
| DE | 1 | 0 | top 79% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 79% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 86% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 84% | 82.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-07-08 | New Jersey State Barbecue Championship North Wildwood, NJ | 56 / 65 (580.4228) | 22 (159.9660) | 48 (147.9312) | 56 (144.5484) | 63 (127.9772) |
| 2016-06-10 | The Historic New Castle Colonial BBQ Competition at Battery Park New Castle, DE | 31 / 39 (605.0396) | 33 (151.3940) | 34 (147.3944) | 34 (154.2628) | 27 (151.9884) |