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.
TANGLE EYE 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 157 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 TANGLE EYE 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 TANGLE EYE 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-headThey turned up 5 years after TANGLE EYE BBQ did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ 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 | 169.6800 | 160.5256 | 165.10 | top 59% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6572 | 159.9544 | 160.81 | top 70% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.3828 | 153.6456 | 156.51 | top 85% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.6456 | 155.3600 | 158.50 | top 77% |
“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 75% | 88.7% | 88.7% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 79% | 89.3% | 89.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-03-27 | Smokin Blues & BBQ Hammond, LA | 42 / 56 (638.6400) | 19 (169.6800) | 39 (159.9544) | 53 (153.6456) | 45 (155.3600) |
| 2014-03-21 | Hammond BBQ Hammond, LA | 48 / 61 (643.2112) | 51 (160.5256) | 43 (161.6572) | 46 (159.3828) | 45 (161.6456) |