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.
Sweet Water BBQ has 3 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 157 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 Sweet Water BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Sweet Water BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after Sweet Water BBQ did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headCareers of much the same size, 5 contests to 4, so neither rating has had more chance to settle than the other.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 169.6912 | 153.1430 | 163.41 | top 67% |
| Pork Ribs | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.2856 | 161.6916 | 165.31 | top 47% |
| Pork | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 158.2628 | 160.75 | top 78% |
| Brisket | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2400 | 157.1316 | 161.70 | top 63% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GA | 2 | 0 | top 78% |
| MO | 1 | 0 | top 49% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 2 | 0 | top 78% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 49% |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| +1 | Smokin' In The Creek | 2013-04-26 |
| Swing | Contest | Date |
|---|---|---|
| -6.5 | Fire Ant Festival BBQ Bash (SBBQA) | 2014-03-28 |
| -5.1 | Chattahoochee River BBQ Competition | 2015-07-24 |
| 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 79% | 90.9% | 90.9% |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 77% | 90.8% | 90.8% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 49% | 89.7% | 89.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-24 | Chattahoochee River BBQ Competition Carrollton, GA | 22 / 28 (654.2060) | 16 (169.6912) | 16 (163.9660) | 22 (163.4172) | 25 (157.1316) |
| 2014-04-03 | Smokin on the River (GBC & SBBQA Qualifier) Summerville, GA | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2014-03-28 | Fire Ant Festival BBQ Bash (SBBQA) Ashburn, GA | 27 / 35 (653.6000) | 23 (167.4056) | 26 (161.6916) | 32 (158.2628) | 19 (166.2400) |
| 2013-04-26 | Smokin' In The Creek Sugar Creek, MO | 20 / 41 (645.7146) | 32 (153.1430) | 4 (170.2856) | 26 (160.5714) | 19 (161.7146) |