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.
BBQ IN PARADISE 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 149 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 BBQ IN PARADISE has actually stood beside rather than a stranger on the same rating.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where BBQ IN PARADISE's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 12 years after BBQ IN PARADISE did, first appearing in 2025.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BBQ IN PARADISE 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 | 152.5372 | 152.0572 | 152.30 | top 78% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152.6172 | 140.5488 | 146.58 | top 68% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.0344 | 153.2000 | 156.62 | top 55% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145.2116 | 138.2404 | 141.73 | top 87% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oinktoberfest | 2 | 57 | 0 | top 84% | 2014-09-20 |
| 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 86% | 83% | 83% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 82% | 82.9% | 82.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-09-20 | Oinktoberfest Clarence, NY | 57 / 66 (597.8520) | 53 (152.0572) | 55 (140.5488) | 25 (160.0344) | 54 (145.2116) |
| 2013-09-20 | Oinktoberfest Clarence, NY | 58 / 71 (596.5948) | 54 (152.5372) | 37 (152.6172) | 51 (153.2000) | 65 (138.2404) |