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.
Wishin' on a Que 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 109 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 Wishin' on a Que 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 Wishin' on a Que did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Wishin' on a Que 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 | 164.0228 | 162.8684 | 163.45 | top 35% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5600 | 149.6800 | 151.12 | top 81% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.3944 | 159.3828 | 161.39 | top 35% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.7144 | 142.7772 | 156.25 | top 51% |
“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 52% | 89.7% | 87.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-30 | Boo B Que By the Sea Rehobeth Beach, DE | 43 / 59 (618.7200) | 20 (162.8684) | 52 (149.6800) | 11 (163.3944) | 53 (142.7772) |
| 2015-04-10 | Triple Threat BBQ Beer and Music Festival Harrington, DE | 30 / 99 (645.6800) | 35 (164.0228) | 73 (152.5600) | 50 (159.3828) | 12 (169.7144) |