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.
Burning Pigs 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 Burning Pigs 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 11 years after Burning Pigs did, first appearing in 2024.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Burning Pigs 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 | 153.6800 | 152.5484 | 153.11 | top 85% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 158.2744 | 152.5716 | 155.42 | top 77% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154.2628 | 140.5368 | 147.40 | top 92% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 144.5372 | 137.7144 | 141.13 | top 93% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battle of the Brisket | 2 | 41 | 0 | top 94% | 2014-09-19 |
| 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 89% | 83.9% | 83.9% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 98% | 82% | 82% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-09-19 | Battle of the Brisket Mission, KS | 41 / 46 (603.9200) | 41 (152.5484) | 41 (152.5716) | 39 (154.2628) | 41 (144.5372) |
| 2013-09-13 | Battle of the Brisket Mission, KS | 52 / 53 (590.2056) | 43 (153.6800) | 34 (158.2744) | 53 (140.5368) | 51 (137.7144) |