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.
Meat & Heat BBQ 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 145 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 Meat & Heat BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1511 at their best, 33 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Meat & Heat BBQ did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Meat & Heat BBQ 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7140 | 158.8688 | 160.29 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146.1828 | 131.2228 | 138.70 | top 93% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.3828 | 144.5712 | 147.98 | top 92% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 144.5484 | 142.7772 | 143.66 | top 90% |
“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 84% | 83.2% | 83.2% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 80.8% | 80.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-17 | 23rd Annual Colorado BBQ Challenge Frisco, CO | 49 / 58 (599.2116) | 41 (158.8688) | 51 (146.1828) | 50 (151.3828) | 53 (142.7772) |
| 2013-09-13 | Colorado Pork & Hops Challenge Grand Junction, CO | 41 / 42 (582.0564) | 27 (161.7140) | 41 (131.2228) | 41 (144.5712) | 37 (144.5484) |