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.
Tailgators BBQ Pit 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.
One contest in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Tailgators BBQ Pit 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 turned up 5 years after Tailgators BBQ Pit did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Tailgators BBQ Pit 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 Tailgators BBQ Pit's is still finding its level.
⚔ 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.0228 | 162.8800 | 165.45 | top 33% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 164.5944 | 164.0116 | 164.30 | top 32% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 169.7144 | 165.1200 | 167.42 | top 26% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 160.5484 | 149.7144 | 155.13 | top 60% |
“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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| MB | 1 | 0 | top 23% |
| MO | 1 | 0 | top 54% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 23% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 54% |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 23% | 90.6% | 90.6% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 54% | 90.6% | 90.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-08-21 | Winnipeg Barbeque and Blues Festival Winnipeg, MB | 5 / 22 (652.5600) | 7 (162.8800) | 4 (164.0116) | 6 (165.1200) | 8 (160.5484) |
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 296 / 552 (652.0460) | 189 (168.0228) | 256 (164.5944) | 135 (169.7144) | 467 (149.7144) |