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.
Mr. Bar-B-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 151 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 Mr. Bar-B-Que has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 39 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head50 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Mr. Bar-B-Que's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Mr. Bar-B-Que did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Mr. Bar-B-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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.5944 | 147.3712 | 149.98 | top 79% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.2628 | 133.7144 | 141.99 | top 89% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2972 | 154.8456 | 160.57 | top 41% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 128.5600 | 114.2628 | 121.41 | top 99% |
“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% | 81.4% | 81.4% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 95% | 78% | 78% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-04-10 | Triple Threat BBQ Beer and Music Festival Harrington, DE | 91 / 99 (586.2628) | 73 (152.5944) | 80 (150.2628) | 66 (154.8456) | 97 (128.5600) |
| 2014-04-11 | Delaware's Triple Threat BBQ Festival at the Fair Harrington, DE | 104 / 109 (561.6456) | 92 (147.3712) | 106 (133.7144) | 17 (166.2972) | 109 (114.2628) |