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.
AD HOC MIRTH 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 149 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 AD HOC MIRTH 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-headThey turned up 9 years after AD HOC MIRTH did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with AD HOC MIRTH on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where AD HOC MIRTH's is still finding its level.
⚔ 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 171.4400 | 164.0000 | 167.72 | top 16% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.6800 | 144.0002 | 144.84 | top 88% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141.6800 | 124.0000 | 132.84 | top 100% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 142.2854 | 125.6916 | 133.99 | 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 | 100% | top 100% | 81.2% | 81.2% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 90% | 79.8% | 79.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-05-06 | Smoke in the Valley BBQ competition Greenlane, PA | 47 / 47 (584.4916) | 9 (171.4400) | 45 (145.6800) | 47 (141.6800) | 47 (125.6916) |
| 2013-05-10 | Green Lane Fire CO's Green Lane, PA | 52 / 58 (574.2856) | 8 (164.0000) | 47 (144.0002) | 58 (124.0000) | 46 (142.2854) |