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.
It Is What It Is 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 146 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 It Is What It Is 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-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 9 contests, alongside a 33% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with It Is What It Is 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-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2015.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4740 | 158.2972 | 160.89 | top 51% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2744 | 156.0228 | 159.15 | top 64% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.5200 | 143.4056 | 149.46 | top 76% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.9884 | 144.5944 | 146.29 | top 86% |
“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 77% | 86.7% | 86.7% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 77% | 84.4% | 84.4% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-24 | Smokin' On The Pecos Artesia, NM | 34 / 44 (624.0800) | 32 (158.2972) | 26 (162.2744) | 26 (155.5200) | 36 (147.9884) |
| 2015-06-26 | Smokin' On The Pecos Artesia, NM | 37 / 48 (607.4968) | 14 (163.4740) | 33 (156.0228) | 45 (143.4056) | 43 (144.5944) |