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.
Double Nickle 7 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 142 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 Double Nickle 7 has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head7 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Double Nickle 7's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 8 years after Double Nickle 7 did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Double Nickle 7 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 | 172.0000 | 157.1544 | 164.58 | top 43% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150.8456 | 147.3600 | 149.10 | top 88% |
| Pork | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 172.5716 | 157.7028 | 165.14 | top 43% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149.1084 | 126.8000 | 137.95 | 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | top 90% | 87% | 85.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-17 | Casino Queen BBQ Competition Greater St. Louis, IL | 39 / 44 (626.1712) | 7 (172.0000) | 40 (147.3600) | 34 (157.7028) | 43 (149.1084) |
| 2014-08-22 | Up In Smoke On The Square Lincoln, IL | 46 / 50 (607.3716) | 35 (157.1544) | 43 (150.8456) | 4 (172.5716) | 50 (126.8000) |