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.
SoCal BBQ Company 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 154 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 SoCal BBQ Company 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-headLevel with SoCal BBQ Company on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after SoCal BBQ Company did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where SoCal BBQ Company's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1772 | 133.6344 | 149.41 | top 82% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.1088 | 163.9428 | 164.53 | top 61% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2512 | 147.3600 | 156.81 | top 81% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.0000 | 152.0000 | 152.00 | top 88% |
“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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 97% | 83.1% | 75.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-08-07 | Ribs, Pigs & Watermelons Huntington Beach, CA | 57 / 58 (598.1032) | 58 (133.6344) | 34 (165.1088) | 57 (147.3600) | 51 (152.0000) |
| 2015-07-24 | 7th Annual Vista BBQ Classic Vista, CA | 52 / 54 (495.3712) | 35 (165.1772) | 34 (163.9428) | 34 (166.2512) | — |