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.
Pig Pimpin 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 132 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 Pig Pimpin has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 13 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after Pig Pimpin did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 9 contests, alongside a 33% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Pig Pimpin on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 127.9196 | 149.37 | top 59% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.5028 | 139.9772 | 144.24 | top 88% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.0344 | 155.3484 | 159.69 | top 51% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.0628 | 149.7028 | 153.38 | top 64% |
“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 52% | 88.9% | 88.9% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 92% | 79.6% | 79.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-22 | Rock N Ribs BBQ Festival Springfield, MO | 32 / 61 (640.4228) | 12 (170.8228) | 55 (148.5028) | 29 (164.0344) | 37 (157.0628) |
| 2014-09-20 | Oinktoberfest Clarence, NY | 61 / 66 (572.9480) | 65 (127.9196) | 57 (139.9772) | 36 (155.3484) | 45 (149.7028) |