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.
PJ's Riggy Piggy 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.
2 contests in common so far: too few to settle anything, but a team PJ's Riggy Piggy BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThey've been 1505 at their best, 30 points above where they sit today — they're arriving at this rating from above.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 9 years after PJ's Riggy Piggy BBQ did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with PJ's Riggy Piggy 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-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 157.1312 | 149.6684 | 153.40 | top 69% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155.3832 | 139.3944 | 147.39 | top 73% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 134.2168 | 20.0000 | 77.11 | top 100% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 144.5144 | 138.8572 | 141.69 | top 79% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DO AC Smokin' Hot Atlantic City BBQ Championship | 2 | 57 | 0 | top 93% | 2014-10-03 |
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 88% | 81.3% | 81.3% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 99% | 63% | 63% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-03 | DO AC Smokin' Hot Atlantic City BBQ Championship Atlantic City, NJ | 57 / 65 (585.5884) | 38 (157.1312) | 36 (155.3832) | 65 (134.2168) | 55 (138.8572) |
| 2013-10-05 | DO AC Smokin' Hot Atlantic City BBQ Championship Atlantic City, NJ | 84 / 85 (453.5772) | 68 (149.6684) | 77 (139.3944) | 85 (20.0000) | 62 (144.5144) |