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.
Handsome Devil BBQ 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 142 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 Handsome Devil BBQ 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 Handsome Devil BBQ 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 Handsome Devil BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir last contest in the data was back in 2022, 3 years before Handsome Devil BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headThey were already cooking in 2015, 7 years before Handsome Devil BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2744 | 166.2400 | 166.26 | top 71% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1088 | 156.5144 | 156.81 | top 83% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.2400 | 159.9656 | 161.10 | top 71% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5488 | 147.3484 | 153.95 | top 74% |
“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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 79% | 89.7% | 89.7% |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 76% | 87.5% | 87.5% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-10 | MD State BBQ Bash 🏅 Bel Air, MD | 23 / 29 (646.1376) | 25 (166.2400) | 25 (157.1088) | 24 (162.2400) | 20 (160.5488) |
| 2022-07-23 | The Harpoon Brewery BBQ Festival 🏅 Windsor, VT | 19 / 25 (630.1028) | 14 (166.2744) | 20 (156.5144) | 15 (159.9656) | 20 (147.3484) |