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.
Hidden River Hogs 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 146 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 Hidden River Hogs 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've been 1511 at their best, 33 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 10 years after Hidden River Hogs did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Hidden River Hogs 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.8568 | 145.7028 | 148.28 | top 97% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156.5944 | 148.5484 | 152.57 | top 77% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5944 | 154.2628 | 157.43 | top 68% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5716 | 131.9772 | 142.27 | top 88% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smokin' Brew BBQ | 2 | 44 | 0 | top 89% | 2015-09-05 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 96% | 80.6% | 80.6% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 83% | 86.2% | 86.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-09-05 | Smokin' Brew BBQ Parker, CO | 47 / 49 (580.4912) | 48 (145.7028) | 40 (148.5484) | 42 (154.2628) | 48 (131.9772) |
| 2013-08-30 | Smokin' Brew BBQ Parker, CO | 44 / 53 (620.6172) | 51 (150.8568) | 38 (156.5944) | 27 (160.5944) | 41 (152.5716) |