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.
Fired Up Que 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 132 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team Fired Up Que 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 7 years after Fired Up Que did, first appearing in 2020.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Fired Up Que 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 | 160.5712 | 154.2516 | 157.41 | top 69% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.1200 | 156.5712 | 158.85 | top 61% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2856 | 154.7884 | 160.54 | top 54% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.7142 | 153.6684 | 155.69 | top 66% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival | 2 | 51 | 0 | top 66% | 2015-06-12 |
| 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% | 86.6% | 86.6% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 53% | 89% | 89% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-12 | Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival Tryon, NC | 62 / 78 (623.8284) | 67 (154.2516) | 44 (161.1200) | 59 (154.7884) | 60 (153.6684) |
| 2013-06-14 | Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival Tryon, NC | 51 / 97 (641.1422) | 50 (160.5712) | 64 (156.5712) | 31 (166.2856) | 53 (157.7142) |