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.
Hung Over & Hard Up 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 109 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 Hung Over & Hard Up BBQ 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 Hung Over & Hard Up 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-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 | 170.2628 | 158.8228 | 164.54 | top 53% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 171.4400 | 163.9888 | 167.71 | top 30% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9312 | 158.8572 | 159.39 | top 78% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5484 | 158.8228 | 159.69 | top 61% |
“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 | 100% | top 48% | 92% | 92% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 60% | 89% | 89% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-04-03 | Smokin On Big Creek BBQ Contest Benefiting Operation BBQ Relief(Judges Full) Pleasant Hill, MO | 34 / 71 (662.1824) | 23 (170.2628) | 9 (171.4400) | 58 (159.9312) | 48 (160.5484) |
| 2014-09-05 | Bates County Barbecue State Championship & Festival 🏅 Butler, MO | 26 / 43 (640.4916) | 32 (158.8228) | 20 (163.9888) | 32 (158.8572) | 23 (158.8228) |