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.
Harbor Hogs 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 99 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Harbor Hogs BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head11 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Harbor Hogs BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Harbor Hogs BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after Harbor Hogs BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ 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 | 163.4288 | 159.9772 | 161.70 | top 51% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4172 | 155.3944 | 161.41 | top 47% |
| Pork | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 173.1428 | 166.8228 | 169.98 | top 15% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.4172 | 152.5372 | 155.98 | top 63% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grill Games | 2 | 12 | 0 | top 38% | 2015-08-28 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 24% | 91.2% | 91.2% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 51% | 89.1% | 89.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-08-28 | Grill Games Kenosha, WI | 12 / 49 (656.5260) | 20 (163.4288) | 14 (167.4172) | 4 (173.1428) | 36 (152.5372) |
| 2014-08-22 | Grill Games Kenosha, WI | 24 / 47 (641.6116) | 29 (159.9772) | 31 (155.3944) | 10 (166.8228) | 25 (159.4172) |