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.
Pig Benis has 1 rated contest — 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 148 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 Pig Benis has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Pig Benis's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after Pig Benis did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Pig Benis on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Pig Benis's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where Pig Benis's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5484 | 152.5484 | 152.55 | top 73% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 123.9428 | 123.9428 | 123.94 | top 100% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.4628 | 155.4628 | 155.46 | top 69% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 134.9028 | 134.9028 | 134.90 | top 92% |
“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% | 78.7% | 78.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-24 | Great Lenexa BBQ Battle-Kansas State Championship 🏅 Lenexa, KS | 177 / 183 (566.8568) | 134 (152.5484) | 183 (123.9428) | 126 (155.4628) | 168 (134.9028) |