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.
3-D BAR-B-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 128 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 3-D BAR-B-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-headLevel with 3-D BAR-B-QUE on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ 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 | 159.4056 | 156.5028 | 157.95 | top 71% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4400 | 160.0000 | 161.72 | top 54% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5372 | 165.1544 | 166.85 | top 43% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2400 | 153.6572 | 153.95 | top 66% |
“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 55% | 89.7% | 89% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-02 | Go Hog Wild Arkansas BBQ Championship Sheridan, AR | 15 / 25 (635.3144) | 19 (156.5028) | 14 (160.0000) | 11 (165.1544) | 19 (153.6572) |
| 2015-09-25 | Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival Jonesboro, AR | 19 / 38 (645.6228) | 25 (159.4056) | 20 (163.4400) | 16 (168.5372) | 21 (154.2400) |