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.
LOW IQ BAR B Q 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 123 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 LOW IQ BAR B Q 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-headTheir rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 6 contests, alongside a 17% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with LOW IQ BAR B Q 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-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 | 1 | 174.8456 | 147.9544 | 161.40 | top 50% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 168.5372 | 166.8344 | 167.69 | top 29% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.1200 | 163.4172 | 166.27 | top 41% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9312 | 150.2744 | 155.10 | top 67% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlanta BarB-Que Festival | 2 | 23 | 0 | top 54% | 2015-08-14 |
| 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 48% | 91.8% | 91.8% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 60% | 88.9% | 88.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-08-14 | Atlanta BarB-Que Festival Atlanta, GA | 23 / 48 (661.0744) | 3 (174.8456) | 17 (166.8344) | 15 (169.1200) | 40 (150.2744) |
| 2014-08-15 | Atlanta BarB-Que Festival (SBBQA) Atlanta, GA | 26 / 43 (639.8400) | 40 (147.9544) | 10 (168.5372) | 22 (163.4172) | 22 (159.9312) |