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.
Wicked RIBS N'at 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 122 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 Wicked RIBS N'at 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 10 years after Wicked RIBS N'at did, first appearing in 2023.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Wicked RIBS N'at 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.8228 | 165.0972 | 167.96 | top 41% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.8000 | 155.4400 | 157.12 | top 76% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 160.5484 | 165.41 | top 50% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.4172 | 151.9200 | 157.67 | 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.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 56% | 89.7% | 89.7% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 60% | 90.3% | 90.3% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-17 | Ohio Smoked Meat & BBQ Festival Nelsonville, OH | 20 / 36 (646.0800) | 20 (165.0972) | 23 (158.8000) | 9 (170.2628) | 31 (151.9200) |
| 2013-10-18 | Ohio Smoke Meat Festival Nelsonville, OH | 21 / 35 (650.2284) | 9 (170.8228) | 31 (155.4400) | 26 (160.5484) | 20 (163.4172) |