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.
SURFIN' PIG 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 113 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 SURFIN' PIG has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head17 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where SURFIN' PIG's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after SURFIN' PIG did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with SURFIN' PIG 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 | 155.4056 | 142.7884 | 149.10 | top 80% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.1428 | 141.6456 | 145.39 | top 90% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5372 | 154.8228 | 159.68 | top 41% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.5256 | 134.8000 | 141.66 | top 79% |
“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 84% | 84% | 82.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-30 | Boo B Que By the Sea Rehobeth Beach, DE | 56 / 59 (586.6740) | 40 (155.4056) | 59 (141.6456) | 38 (154.8228) | 57 (134.8000) |
| 2015-07-10 | New Jersey State Barbecue Championship North Wildwood, NJ | 47 / 65 (604.9940) | 60 (142.7884) | 52 (149.1428) | 11 (164.5372) | 40 (148.5256) |