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.
ONCE IN A BLUE MOON 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 119 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 ONCE IN A BLUE MOON has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where ONCE IN A BLUE MOON's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after ONCE IN A BLUE MOON did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with ONCE IN A BLUE MOON on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ 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 | 166.8344 | 159.3828 | 163.11 | top 78% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2516 | 150.8000 | 156.53 | top 84% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.8456 | 162.8228 | 162.83 | top 73% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5144 | 148.5028 | 154.51 | top 89% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 87% | 88.9% | 88.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-11-20 | Bar-B-Cure Knoxville, TN | 27 / 35 (640.4116) | 21 (166.8344) | 24 (162.2516) | 23 (162.8228) | 31 (148.5028) |
| 2015-09-11 | Tony Stone-Cookeville Cookoff Cookeville, TN | 30 / 31 (633.5428) | 30 (159.3828) | 31 (150.8000) | 25 (162.8456) | 28 (160.5144) |