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.
Mississippi Misfits BBQ Co. 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 139 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 Mississippi Misfits BBQ Co. 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 Mississippi Misfits BBQ Co. did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Mississippi Misfits BBQ Co. on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Mississippi Misfits BBQ Co.'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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1084 | 166.2284 | 169.67 | top 46% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.0744 | 153.6228 | 155.35 | top 87% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5372 | 162.8232 | 163.68 | top 62% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6684 | 159.3828 | 160.53 | top 71% |
“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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 90.4% | 90.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-03-19 | Tupelo BBQ Duel- Comp 2 Tupelo, MS | 51 / 61 (650.6512) | 21 (173.1084) | 58 (153.6228) | 36 (164.5372) | 49 (159.3828) |
| 2016-03-18 | Tupelo BBQ Duel- Comp 1 Tupelo, MS | 65 / 95 (647.7944) | 55 (166.2284) | 75 (157.0744) | 61 (162.8232) | 59 (161.6684) |