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.
ROY BOY'S BAR-B-Q 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 121 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 ROY BOY'S BAR-B-Q 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 ROY BOY'S BAR-B-Q on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headBoth teams' first contest in the data came in 2014.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where ROY BOY'S BAR-B-Q's is still finding its level.
⚔ 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 | 162.8572 | 158.2512 | 160.55 | top 87% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.3944 | 162.2516 | 164.82 | top 63% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.9772 | 162.2400 | 165.11 | top 68% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.7884 | 145.0860 | 151.94 | top 91% |
“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 84% | 91.3% | 91.3% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 88% | 87.2% | 87.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-15 | Sevierville Bloomin' BBQ and Bluegrass Festival Sevierville, TN | 37 / 44 (657.0172) | 37 (162.8572) | 24 (167.3944) | 28 (167.9772) | 38 (158.7884) |
| 2014-05-16 | Bloomin' BBQ & Bluegrass Sevierville, TN | 49 / 56 (627.8288) | 50 (158.2512) | 40 (162.2516) | 40 (162.2400) | 54 (145.0860) |