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.
Pats 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 124 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 Pats BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1546 at their best, 62 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 Pats BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after Pats BBQ did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ 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 | 157.6456 | 153.1428 | 155.39 | top 86% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1084 | 159.9884 | 160.55 | top 62% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2628 | 159.3828 | 160.82 | top 63% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 138.7772 | 138.1944 | 138.49 | top 96% |
“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 | 42 | 0 | top 85% | 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 87% | 86% | 86% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 84% | 84.9% | 84.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-03 | Up In smoke on the Square Lincoln, IL | 45 / 52 (619.2112) | 47 (157.6456) | 28 (161.1084) | 30 (162.2628) | 51 (138.1944) |
| 2014-08-22 | Up In Smoke On The Square Lincoln, IL | 42 / 50 (611.2912) | 41 (153.1428) | 35 (159.9884) | 34 (159.3828) | 47 (138.7772) |