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.
BabyBlueQ 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 127 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 BabyBlueQ 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 6 years after BabyBlueQ did, first appearing in 2019.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with BabyBlueQ 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 | 166.8916 | 158.8228 | 162.86 | top 35% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163.9656 | 161.1312 | 162.55 | top 35% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5944 | 149.6916 | 159.14 | top 50% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 160.5944 | 129.0972 | 144.85 | top 62% |
“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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival | 2 | 44 | 0 | top 60% | 2014-08-30 |
| 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 71% | 86.9% | 86.9% |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 49% | 87.9% | 87.9% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-08-30 | City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival Bedford, TX | 54 / 76 (625.7144) | 16 (166.8916) | 36 (161.1312) | 16 (168.5944) | 75 (129.0972) |
| 2013-08-31 | City of Bedford Blues & BBQ Festival Bedford, TX | 44 / 89 (633.0744) | 44 (158.8228) | 20 (163.9656) | 70 (149.6916) | 23 (160.5944) |