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.
R & B BBQ Gang 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 129 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 R & B BBQ Gang 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 R & B BBQ Gang did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with R & B BBQ Gang 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9656 | 156.5714 | 158.27 | top 57% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.8572 | 145.7146 | 150.29 | top 72% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5372 | 142.2856 | 151.41 | top 75% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 143.9544 | 125.1426 | 134.55 | top 93% |
“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 72% | 86% | 86% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 91% | 79.1% | 79.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-08-14 | 14th Annual Maryland State BBQ Bash Bel Air, MD | 33 / 46 (619.3144) | 31 (159.9656) | 33 (154.8572) | 28 (160.5372) | 40 (143.9544) |
| 2013-05-17 | Middletown BBQ Cook Off Middletown, DE | 51 / 56 (569.7142) | 26 (156.5714) | 40 (145.7146) | 50 (142.2856) | 56 (125.1426) |