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.
Excellence in Barbecue 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Excellence in Barbecue has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1505 at their best, 30 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-headLevel with Excellence in Barbecue 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 | 159.4628 | 146.2856 | 152.87 | top 70% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.5372 | 129.6228 | 139.08 | top 89% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8684 | 153.1200 | 153.99 | top 72% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2744 | 146.2856 | 150.28 | top 75% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poor Que | 2 | 28 | 0 | top 91% | 2016-06-03 |
| 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 93% | 83.6% | 83.6% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 89% | 82% | 82% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-03 | Poor Que Montello, WI | 28 / 30 (602.2172) | 27 (146.2856) | 25 (148.5372) | 24 (153.1200) | 18 (154.2744) |
| 2015-06-05 | Poor Que Montello, WI | 34 / 38 (590.2396) | 19 (159.4628) | 36 (129.6228) | 24 (154.8684) | 34 (146.2856) |