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.
RED PLANET 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 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 RED PLANET BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head10 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where RED PLANET BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 12 years after RED PLANET BBQ did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with RED PLANET BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where RED PLANET BBQ'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 | 166.8456 | 157.1200 | 161.98 | top 47% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.6800 | 157.1544 | 157.42 | top 53% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 165.7484 | 141.0744 | 153.41 | top 55% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5256 | 150.2744 | 151.40 | 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.
| Where | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| CT | 1 | 0 | top 83% |
| NJ | 1 | 0 | top 27% |
| Field | Contests | GCs | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium (20–39) | 1 | 0 | top 83% |
| Large (40+) | 1 | 0 | top 27% |
| 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 83% | 85.5% | 85.5% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 27% | 87.9% | 87.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-02 | Ridgefield Gone Country BBQ Festival Ridgefield, CT | 25 / 30 (615.3488) | 12 (166.8456) | 21 (157.1544) | 30 (141.0744) | 24 (150.2744) |
| 2013-10-05 | DO AC Smokin' Hot Atlantic City BBQ Championship Atlantic City, NJ | 23 / 85 (633.0740) | 46 (157.1200) | 30 (157.6800) | 8 (165.7484) | 44 (152.5256) |