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.
BBQ Clowns has 1 rated contest — 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 146 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 BBQ Clowns has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where BBQ Clowns's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 10 years after BBQ Clowns did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BBQ Clowns on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where BBQ Clowns's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head5 contests to 1: their number has had years to settle where BBQ Clowns's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153.6912 | 153.6912 | 153.69 | top 92% |
| Pork Ribs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.4516 | 151.4516 | 151.45 | top 92% |
| Pork | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2856 | 158.2856 | 158.29 | top 86% |
| Brisket | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148.6172 | 148.6172 | 148.62 | top 86% |
“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 92% | 85% | 85% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-19 | Desoto Shrine Club 7th Annual 2015 BBQ Cook Off Hernando, MS | 34 / 37 (612.0456) | 34 (153.6912) | 34 (151.4516) | 32 (158.2856) | 32 (148.6172) |