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.
In Hog Heaven 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 137 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 In Hog Heaven BBQ has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-headThis is the highest they've ever been rated, 9 rated contests in — a team sitting at its own career peak.
⚔ Head-to-head18 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where In Hog Heaven BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head22 contests and no Grand Championship yet — a rating made of 23% top-10 finishes rather than wins.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 6 years after In Hog Heaven BBQ did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-head4 straight overall top-10s says this rating is a moving target.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.8572 | 154.8344 | 160.85 | top 56% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 161.0972 | 157.7028 | 159.40 | top 56% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5944 | 152.5944 | 158.59 | top 60% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147.9432 | 143.3716 | 145.66 | top 89% |
“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 | 0% | top 80% | 86.8% | 86.8% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 69% | 86.7% | 86.7% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | 35th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 441 / 552 (625.0976) | 222 (166.8572) | 388 (157.7028) | 472 (152.5944) | 492 (147.9432) |
| 2013-10-03 | 34th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open Kansas City, MO | 369 / 535 (623.8976) | 387 (154.8344) | 224 (161.0972) | 181 (164.5944) | 471 (143.3716) |