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.
Double Nickle Seven 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 129 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 Double Nickle Seven BBQ 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-headLevel with Double Nickle Seven 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-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ 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 | 163.4400 | 146.8344 | 155.14 | top 78% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8916 | 160.5256 | 161.71 | top 58% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5256 | 160.5488 | 162.54 | top 50% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5372 | 155.3600 | 157.95 | top 62% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Up In smoke on the Square | 2 | 24 | 0 | top 68% | 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 75% | 87.8% | 87.8% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 60% | 89.2% | 89.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-03 | Up In smoke on the Square Lincoln, IL | 39 / 52 (632.4228) | 52 (146.8344) | 30 (160.5256) | 21 (164.5256) | 27 (160.5372) |
| 2015-06-05 | Up In Smoke On The Square Lincoln, IL | 24 / 40 (642.2404) | 22 (163.4400) | 23 (162.8916) | 24 (160.5488) | 29 (155.3600) |