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.
LAW HAWGS 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 139 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 LAW HAWGS BBQ 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 8 years after LAW HAWGS BBQ did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with LAW HAWGS BBQ 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-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where LAW HAWGS BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1200 | 150.8456 | 153.98 | top 90% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2972 | 143.3944 | 154.85 | top 72% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 162.3200 | 142.8228 | 152.57 | top 78% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5716 | 150.2972 | 155.43 | top 72% |
“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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 63% | 89.8% | 89.8% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 100% | 81.6% | 81.6% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-08-14 | BBQ and Fly In on the River Excelsior Springs, MO | 42 / 67 (646.3088) | 55 (157.1200) | 31 (166.2972) | 40 (162.3200) | 38 (160.5716) |
| 2013-08-01 | Wheels 'N' Squeels BBQ Challenge Olathe, KS | 74 / 74 (587.3600) | 73 (150.8456) | 72 (143.3944) | 72 (142.8228) | 65 (150.2972) |