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.
BACON ROCK 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 145 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 BACON ROCK BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 10 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 11 years after BACON ROCK BBQ did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BACON ROCK 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.1200 | 148.5256 | 148.82 | top 91% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.2744 | 144.5372 | 147.41 | top 95% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 163.4056 | 149.1200 | 156.26 | top 67% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165.7028 | 150.8460 | 158.27 | top 60% |
“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.
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small (<20 teams) | 1 | 0 | top 87% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 90% |
| 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 90% | 84.5% | 84.5% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 87% | 85.1% | 85.1% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-13 | Sun BBQ Fest Uncasville, CT | 47 / 52 (608.4800) | 50 (149.1200) | 50 (144.5372) | 45 (149.1200) | 17 (165.7028) |
| 2014-09-27 | The Best BBQ Chef Competition New London, CT | 13 / 15 (613.0516) | 13 (148.5256) | 14 (150.2744) | 7 (163.4056) | 13 (150.8460) |