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.
VICTOR'S 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 147 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 VICTOR'S 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-headThey turned up 9 years after VICTOR'S BBQ did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with VICTOR'S 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.7028 | 148.5256 | 155.11 | top 90% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.2516 | 153.6572 | 159.95 | top 74% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.0228 | 165.7372 | 168.88 | top 42% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167.4172 | 152.4912 | 159.95 | top 72% |
“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.
| Contest | Visits | Best | GCs | Avg finish | Last visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smokin In The Square | 2 | 38 | 0 | top 84% | 2015-03-06 |
| 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 85% | 90.1% | 90.1% |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 83% | 88.8% | 88.8% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-03-06 | Smokin In The Square Pensacola, FL | 41 / 48 (648.5144) | 39 (161.7028) | 48 (153.6572) | 30 (165.7372) | 25 (167.4172) |
| 2014-03-07 | Smokin in the Square Pensacola, FL | 38 / 46 (639.2912) | 45 (148.5256) | 22 (166.2516) | 10 (172.0228) | 42 (152.4912) |