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.
La Manada Ribs 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 111 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 La Manada Ribs 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 La Manada Ribs on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after La Manada Ribs did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where La Manada Ribs's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where La Manada Ribs's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8456 | 157.6800 | 158.26 | top 64% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.0000 | 158.8344 | 163.42 | top 42% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.6800 | 157.7028 | 161.69 | top 40% |
| Brisket | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 170.2744 | 161.7256 | 166.00 | top 21% |
“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 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 36% | 90.9% | 90.9% |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 39% | 89.5% | 89.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-02-20 | 9th Annual Smoking Hot BBQ San Juan San Juan, PR | 10 / 28 (654.2512) | 17 (158.8456) | 8 (168.0000) | 8 (165.6800) | 10 (161.7256) |
| 2015-02-21 | Smokin' Hot BBQ San Juan Puerto Rico San Juan, PR | 13 / 33 (644.4916) | 22 (157.6800) | 18 (158.8344) | 17 (157.7028) | 2 (170.2744) |